xpath has been around for a while.... On 1/6/06, ryanm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > this has been around for ages...add to this that e4x is currently in > alpha > > and slow, and the fact that xpath is a w3c spec and even macromedia > > implement a much thinner version of this in F7 then this statement > sounds > > a > > bit absurd > > > Uuuuuhhh... what? Yes, the E4X spec has been around a while, but is > poorly implemented, at best, in most platforms. There was never any E4X in > any version of Flash before, and the implementation in Flex 2 is pretty > good. Native E4X and RegEx are both beautiful things. > > > you will find xpath is very slow on large data sets, and writng certain > > types of queries make it even slower. i would really consider using a > > differant format (excel can export cvs, you can parse that much much > > faster). we tend to use xpath everywhere, check where the bottlenecks > are > > and rewrite those parsing routines using node.firstSibling type access > > where > > needed. > > > Which is essentially what I said in the first place... > > ryanm > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >
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