backplane-import/test-import — Issue #44: Improve performance of XPath evaluation
Author: backplane-import
Created: 2011-10-13 16:23:00+00:00
State: open

Imported from backplanejs Google Code [issue 44](http://code.google.com/p/backplanejs/issues/detail?id=44).

Originally filed by [markbirbeck](https://github.com/markbirbeck) on 24 Apr 2010 1:01:39 PM UTC

This is a significant issue with Internet Explorer.

Functions that are repeated frequently, such as getBoundNode() rely on
EvaluateXPath() to obtain the node that they are bound to. Since this function
is very slow on IE, overall performance is significantly impacted.