On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 06:04 PM, Conal Tuohy wrote:

Don't be too quick to deprecate document()!

Did my draft suggest that? Are you saying that pointing out the problems
associated with using the document() function in a Cocoon environment (e.g. caching)
which may discourage use of the document() function "in effect"
suggests "deprecation"?


Also, don't forget, the document() function is also inefficient because of
Xalan bugs. I guess we could advise the use of Saxon if users choose to continue
their use of the document() function -- for whatever reason.


And I forgot to mention other potential (future) approaches: XpathDirectoryGenerator (2.1 scratchpad),
Forrest's Libre, etc. Are there others? I remember a thread (Speed up DirectoryGenerator)
with Stefan/Steven/Marc on this subject, but it's not clear to me if Stefan's recent work impacts
this FAQ.


Thanks for your input.

Diana



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