Conversely I suspect that the xslt2 version is a linear speedup because
Michael's code gets more optimised over the years so in this case the
speedup probably is not so dependent on document size. As a comparision you
could run the xslt1 version with saxon8 I'd guess that would be a
similar speed to the "xslt2" version, which I didn't really write to be
quicker just as a more or less joke version to show you could (if you
were feeling peverse) write it as a single XPath. On the other hand,
while writing things as a single Xpath often looks strange to an old
time XSLT user, but it is essentially the definition of using Xquery.

Cheers,
Wendell

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