(jBAD)- jQuery on Big A$$ Documents

Take a look at the metrics on vanilla-js.com.  jQuery, while easy to use is not exactly fast.  That is not a slam on jQuery. In any app as functionality increases speed decreases.  When working with big documents mix vanilla-js with jQuery for best results.

var xmlFrag = document.getElementById(“12345”);
$(“f\\:user > f\\:name”,xmlFrag);

In the code sample above I'm searching xml with namespaces.  My namespace prefix is f.  I know the Id of the root node from an event (code not shown).  I'm using plain old javascript getElementById to quickly grab that dom node and create a fragment.  Then passing just that fragment of xml into jQuery for further processing.

<f:user xmlns:f="user.xsd"><f:name></f:name></f:user>