Subject: RE: Your XSL-List post bounced From: paulo.gaspar@xxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 14:15:16 -0700 |
However, it brought to my mind an issue I have been thinking about: Fast way to select nodes/apply transformations to a huge XML file I could use such thing in my current project. And I could express what I want with XSLT. One way I can imagine an efficient way of using XSLT to select and transform a few nodes from a gigabyte XML document is indexing it - a database thing. That is something I would like to see implemented. However, one of the guys from the Oracle Intermedia team I talked with today, wasn't even familiar with XPath. To give some context: - I was these last 2 days at the "Oracle iDevelop 2000" in Amsterdam; - Intermedia is an Oracle product that indexes many media types, including XML; - They have a syntax to search for values inside tags, but it uses a "contains" syntax and has nothing to do with XPath or XSQL. In Intermedia, document properties are stored in XML. That is quite convenient and adds flexibility to the mechanism. (It extracts and indexes the dimensions and colour depth of a picture or the length and format of a video. Similar stuff with PDF and MSWord documents.) Even so, XPath seems to be far from the plans of this team. Probably is known by the developers but somehow it doesn come up to the search mechanism and to the know plans for the tool. I would like to use XSLT over big XML documents and this could be built on top of database technology. And if I could do that with the same database I am using for the rest of the application, that would be much better. I would realy like to se this issue raised. Thanks, and have fun, Paulo P.S.: I am not saying that one should directly use XPath to get the nodes but yes that XPath could be used in a "WHERE" clause of a SQL statement to help expressing the selection of the documents containing nodes matching a XPath expression. That would be similar to the current syntax, althought XPath is shorter, more powerful and familiar to "XML developers". --- Original Message --- XSL-List Owner <xsl-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Wrote on Tue, 30 May 2000 12:01:40 -0400 (EST) ------------------ This thread shows no sign of being related to XSL. As such, it is out of scope for the XSL-List. Please move this discussion to a different forum. Regards, Tony Graham ----- Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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