Re: [xsl] XQuery basics

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

At 01:35 PM 6/4/2008, you wrote:
> If you use a small main Source XML with the minimum necessary
> instructions for a transform, then you can bring in the bulk the
> required XML through the document function (maybe with a URIResolver
> that uses XQuery, but...)

Isn't this effectively the same thing?

> Don't the XML databases work best with many small documents rather than
> one or a few very large documents?

I should think that depends on the database. In any case, I didn't 
intend to suggest that the classic architecture would become 
obsolete, but merely to agree that Andrew was onto something that 
could be very useful. For large-scale queries over aggregated data, 
the classic mapping of single document to single result via a single 
transform may not serve so well. This is where XQuery comes in. But 
XQuery alone is a blunt instrument for final transformations for 
rendering, which you are also likely to want.

Cheers,
Wendell



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