On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Adam Dickmeiss wrote: > Mike Taylor wrote: >>> From: "LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]> You guys must have absolutely blinding transformation engines if you're worried about the time it takes to instantiate a URI object. I haven't done any serious profiling, but my expectation is that I'll find something pretty similar to Adam -- the amount of work to parse the SOAP XML outweighs anything else, assuming that the search isn't expensive (title > a) and the records don't need to be transformed before returning them (MarcXML -> MODS). Scan, for example, is very very easy for me to process (as Berkeley DB keeps the terms in order, so I just cursor through them) Rob ,'/:. Dr Robert Sanderson ([log in to unmask]) ,'-/::::. http://www.o-r-g.org/~azaroth/ ,'--/::(@)::. Dept. of Computer Science, Room 805 ,'---/::::::::::. University of Liverpool ____/:::::::::::::. L5R Shop: http://www.cardsnotwords.com/ I L L U M I N A T I