XML Parsing Problem

[dibosite]

i would like to know which is more faster while parsing XML File in JavaScript

document.getElementById("MyID") ;

Or
Xpath="//MyID";
XMLDoc.evaluate(xpath, XMLDoc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE,null)

[ChiefLee]

I'm guessing document.getElementById is going to be faster most of the time, because it's cheaper to pull and element out of a hash table by key than to traverse a DOM to find it by Xpath. In most cases, the difference won't be noticeable.