Subject: RE: Sorting and position From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:12:19 -0000 |
> I thought of using <xsl:if> as you suggest. That works fine, > but my concern is that if I have 100+ possible elements and I only want 10, > all 100+ are still going to be avaluated the the <xsl:if>. For a really > large list I would think that doing it in two passes would be more > efficient. True? > As the size of the list increases, the cost of the sort will increase by a factor of n log n, while the cost of filtering the output of the sort will increase by a factor of n. Therefore the filtering becomes relatively cheaper as the list gets longer. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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