Thanks for the suggestions
>> 1. try the embed driver: this will give you access to the "raw" Xindice >> performance, without any transport overhead (it might well be XML-RPC >> serialization/deserialization, though I seriously doubt it); Done. Same query, same source. Before indexing Embedded, - 93324 ms XML-RPC - 88843 ms After indexing Embedded, - 1683 ms XML-RPC - 1402 ms Same box, same code and RPC is faster? >> 2. check to see where most of the time is spent. I'd suspect something >> in Xalan code during the XPath search. I'm going to run it through the OptimizeIt, see where the time is spent and post the results Thanks, Bob Stone
