>Rob Belics wrote:
>After some Googling, I've only found one article that claims xslt would
>be "many times faster" but without any reason for saying that

Yes, xslt is faster. possible reasons could be: xslt is based on xpath
expressions which use regular expressions, that are executed by xslt
engine like msxml if you use MS internet explorer for instance.
if you yourself use DOM, then you yourself need to consider and test
all the use cases that a regular expression handles.
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