Re: XPath question - big trouble

Thank you!

Since you brought up the subject, will this
//paragraph[(at)objid = "02"]
be slower than
/mydocument/body/chapter/contents/paragraph[(at)objid
>> = "02"]
when handling a big document?
I mean from the query time point of view ...

Csaba Nagy wrote:

> Marian,
>
>> 1.
>> SELECT
>> xpath_nodeset(xml_data,
>> '/mydocument/body/chapter/contents/paragraph[(at)objid
>> = "02"]|/mydocument/body/paragraph[(at)objid="87"]')
>> FROM xmltable
>> WHERE id = 3
>
> You could maybe use the xpath: '//paragraph[(at)objid = "02"]' if you want
> all paragraphs at all document levels.
>
> A nice xslt reference is:
> file:///home/cnagy/offline/XSLTreference/Output/index.html
>
> There you can also exercise your xpath skills...
>
> Cheers,
> Csaba.
>
>
>
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