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Something says me it will not be very efficient ...

The particular implementation you mentioned, serializing the file system tree into an XML doc then deserializing it into a XML tree, would indeed be inefficient.

However, XPath can be applied to tree structures (such as a file system) in an efficient manner. It was designed to do just that.

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Re^4: A better, more powerful fileglob?
by CountZero (Bishop) on Feb 15, 2007 at 20:56 UTC
    Thanks. I do some reading up on XPath then (it is several years ago I last used it). I seem to have had the wrong impression that it needed XML to work upon.

    CountZero

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