On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:17:55AM -0500, Liam R E Quin scripsit:
[snip]
> Also check that the XQuery database you are using is indexing
> attribute values. For eXist-db see
> http://exist.sourceforge.net/indexing.html - e.g.
> 
> <create qname="@cite" type="xs:string"/>

I will definitely check this!

My initial cursory reading had it indexing all attribute values by
default, but that may well be what I get for a cursory reading.

> (if the data can be shared it might make an interesting little
> test-case for comparing XQuery impleentations!)

Unfortunately, no; it's someone's proprietary markup of legal
commentary.

Thanks!

-- Graydon