On Fri, 2020-08-21 at 12:51 -0700, Bill Osmond wrote: > > declare namespace ernm="http://ddex.net/xml/ern/411"; > > for $r in /ernm:NewReleaseMessage > for $track_release in $r/ReleaseList/TrackRelease > for $party in $r/PartyList/Party > for $sound_recording in $r/ResourceList/SoundRecording > for $release in $r/ReleaseList/Release > where > $track_release/ReleaseLabelReference = $party/PartyReference > and $track_release/ReleaseResourceReference = > $sound_recording/ResourceReference > and $track_release/ReleaseResourceReference = > $release/ResourceGroup/ResourceGroup/ResourceGroupContentItem/Release > ResourceReference
BaseX is probably smart enough to rewrite this, but check - for $r in /ernm:NewReleaseMessage for $track_release in $r/ReleaseList/TrackRelease where $track_release/ReleaseLabelReference = $party/PartyReference return for $party in $r/PartyList/Party for $sound_recording in $r/ResourceList/SoundRecording where $track_release/ReleaseResourceReference = $sound_recording/ResourceReference return for $release in $r/ReleaseList/Release where $track_release/ReleaseResourceReference = $release/ResourceGroup/ResourceGroup/ResourceGroupContentItem/ReleaseRe sourceReference return <identity>... > Am I wrong, and would an additional value index help here? Or is my > query > just bad? You're computing every possible combiation of 5 items and then filtering out the ones you want. Filtering out earlier would probably help. Also, moving the tests least lilely to match to the outside would reduce the number of tests sooner. A value index might well help, but as Bridger wrote, check in the gUI to see the query plan. BaseX might already be doing the sort of rewrite i suggested. Liam -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org