Rolls, Robert wrote:

> Would that mean having to load the whole document before the expression
> could evaluate.

Yes. Generally a document needs to be parsed to use XPath, although I
believe there is some work towards a forward-only version of XPath that
could then be used against a streaming parser. While that may prove useful
in the future, I have no idea what its status is today.

Brad

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