On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 08:24 +0200, Bernhard Liebl wrote:
for $seq in doc("data.xml")//seq
You could try changing this to doc("data.xml")/seqs/seq so that it doesn't have to look at every item element to see if it's a seq element. It'll also likely run faster if you load the data into the database instead of using doc(), as then there will presumably be an element index. I also notice the time to compile and optimize the query was longer for the second run. Maybe the computer was low on memory? liam -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org