XPATH vs DOM tests acomplishied

hi, i performed some test trying to select one node in a document with 10000 nodes (<name first="ssss" last="sss">) and the test said:

[bold]Using xpath[/bold]

String xpath ="/doc/name[@first=\"Rodrigo\"]";

Node node = XPathAPI.selectSingleNode(doc, xpath);

[bold]it delay like 1970 milliseconds[/bold]

[bold]Using dom[/bold]

NodeList nodeList = (NodeList)doc.getElementsByTagName("name");

int length = nodeList.getLength();

for (int i = 0; i < length; i++){

Element node = (Element)nodeList.item(i);

String name = node.getAttribute("first");

if (name.equals("Rodrigo")){

break;

}

}

[bold]it delay like 1010 milliseconds[/bold]

HOW CAN IT BE ?

xpath is more slower than dom ?

thanks

Rodrigo Gonzalez Asensio

Researcher & Developer

Buenos Aires - Argentina

[1315 byte] By [redjat] at [2007-9-26 2:09:00]