Re the select and boolean: yes, that is definitely shorter, though I tend to prefer the explicit ./ for some reason. I often find it helps others in the team understand the context aspect which seems to be a tricky bit to get going with, initially.

Re the href: I used to do this. Somewhere I read that this is slightly less performant, but I can’t remember if it was just for the MSXML processor I was using at the time or as a general thing. (Though using a compiled XSLT Processor, which MSXML also supports, and caching such a processor should minimize that issue, I guess.)

Do you know if there is such a performance difference in any of the major processors today? Perhaps it is a minimal enough difference these days that it is worth using your suggestion in a good percentage of the cases, anyway.

You are certainly correct however, and I should have perhaps clarified those things in the post.

Will update and mention your suggestions when I get a moment.

select=”./Orders”
select=”Orders”

href=”{concat($domain, ‘/product/?’, $someProductId)}”
href=”{$domain}/product/?{$someProductId}”

select=”boolean($new = ‘true’)”
select=”$new = ‘true’”