massive xml docs

[Bruce Robertson]

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

The 100MB file IS (or can be) one of the hiearchy of documents for this
application.