performance of variables in a xpath expression

hi!

im curious about how much slower it is to use a
variable in a xpath expression. 

im accessing alot of nodes outside of the current context 
and to make things more nice, i would like to set some 
part of the path to them as a variable..

thanks!

ciao!
florian


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