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[10:37:01 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> yes, it does
[10:37:39 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> it is very nice to write some delarative code that looks up the stuff you want... but the performance penalty is too great
[10:37:50 CST(-0600)] <Arvids> declarative*
[10:37:54 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> yeah
[10:38:06 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> the sad thing is it shouldn't be that expensive
[10:38:17 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> and there are alternative xpath impls for java that I'm betting are fast
[10:38:30 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> but last I looked jdom and dom4j are both essentially dead