Yes, in response to my report at the time, the eXist developers revised
the processing to optimize by reading the predicate early. And they did it
quickly, in time to make it into an addendum to the presentation at slide
#54.
On 7/6/14, 7:34 AM, "Michael Kay" <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> wrote:
Ouch! According to those slides, eXist doesn't do early exit for an
expression like preceding::word[1]. That's really painful. I do hope they
have fixed that in the meantime!
Michael Kay
Saxonica
mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com
+44 (0118) 946 5893
On 6 Jul 2014, at 12:20, Syd Bauman s(_dot_)bauman(_at_)neu(_dot_)edu
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
See
http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol3/author-pkg/Birnbaum01/BalisageVo
l3-Birnbaum01.html
(Yes, the problem here is different than in the paper, and here keys
are likely to be the best solution. But nice to know you're not alone
with this sort of issue.)
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