XPathAPI question

Hi all,

   I am using Xalan XPathAPI to get the nodes in a XML file. May i know how to 
restrict the 
number of child nodes when we use the XPathAPI.selectNodeList() method ?

for example, this xml file :

<books>
  <book>bookA</book>
  <book>bookB</book>
  <book>bookC</book>
...
...
...
{about 2000 record}
</books>

so if we use XPathAPI.selectNodeList(doc, "/books/book"); the return NodeList 
object will 
contains 2000 nodes right? will it eat up a lot of memory ? or it is any way to 
restrict the 
number of nodes returned by this method ? For example, just return the nodes 
from position 1 to 
positon 10 ? is it posible ?

Thank you.

regards,
Kok Choon.
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