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What is quicker to query via XPath in MSXML, a nodes attribute or its child?

April 26, 2017child MSXML Node query quicker xpath

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What is quicker to query via XPath in MSXML, a nodes attribute or its child?

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Hi Chris, This is purely an educated guess, but I would tend to think that an attribute would be quicker to query. Attribute names must be unique and may only contain simple string values while child objects can vary in type and are not necessarily unique. Back in the MSXML days, I would suspect that Attributes and other XmlNodes were probably stored separately and Attributes would likely be more efficient. I repeat: this is purely an educated guess!