Stefan Behnel, 04.11.2011 11:32:
almost exactly two years ago, I brought up the topic of the surprisingly unpredictable XPath performance on this list (thread titled "confusing xpath performance characteristics", without response at the time).
... likely because the issue is known - here's a thread from 2004 on this list that gives some additional details, especially the mail in focus:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.lib.xml.general/7972/focus=8002 Stefan _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml