massive xml docs

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 2/9/06 11:06 PM, "Mark Wieder" <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

Hi Mark,

>> Also in ideal these tools must be able handle queries to XML document.
>> This can be Xpath, Xquery, or SQL/XML.
> 
> ...and I'd advise staying away from XPath as well. It's gotten
> splintered into too many proprietary spinoffs.
> 
> XQuery is much easier to read (IMO) and is pretty standardized these
> days. 

Hmm, Mark, but Xpath is some kind of part of Xquery.
Xpath also have standard.

Under proprietary may be you mean implementations of engines?
But this is not a problem. SQL also have standard. And many DBMS vendors
implement it.

> The only thing you can't do with it is update a document.

Exists draft of XUpdate.

Big sure that in near future it will be included into standard
 
> To my mind, a 100MB xml document is poorly designed. It should be
> segmented into a hierarchy of smaller documents or exported to a
> database. But nobody asked me.

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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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