Our testing confirms your suspicions; a duplicate() seems to perform better than re-parsing the XML string.
We went with duplicate as a quick fix for our framework; if we find something better, we'll let everyone know. I voted for a fix in CF and I encourage others to do the same: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform ******BUG****** Concise problem statement: XMLSearch() is not thread safe. Steps to reproduce bug: 1. Create XML object in a shared scope like APPLICATION. 2. Search the object with different XMLSearch() xpath expressions in multiple requests at the same time under significant load. Results: Null pointer errors, incorrect search results. Expected results: correct searches, no NPEs. On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Brad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My thoughts on why duplicate might perform better than xmlparse went > something like this: Which takes longer? reinstalling and configuring a > server from scratch, or running Norton Ghost and simply copying over an > image... > > Has anyone filed this with Adobe yet? http://www.adobe.com/go/wish/ -- mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:310828 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4