[xml] Re: [xslt] Performance issue when matching text()|*

[Kasimier Buchcik <kbuchcik 4commerce de>]

Hi,

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 06:00:12PM +0100, Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
>
> > Just out of curiosity; the spec says:
> >
> > "text() selects all text node children of the context node"
> >
> > "Function: number count(node-set)
> > The count function returns the number of nodes in the argument
> > node-set."
> >
> > Why does this build 1 huge text node?
>
>
>   All <xsl:value-of> translate into adding some text to the current document,
> i.e. adding a text node at the current insertion point.
>   And all that stylesheet does is to accumulate <xsl:value-of> on all matching
> nodes.

Oops, if this is true then XSLT it's really not intuitive here, since
I would expect the expression to be evaluated from inner to outer; i.e.
"count(text())" to return a number first and _then_ this number to be
converted to a string, which is added to the output.
Strange it seems to me.

Regards,

Kasimier