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Hi Tony: How similar are the "140+ XML documents" you mention? How about put them in a database and search there? Might be faster to search *before* you compose final documents, not after; whether your database stores entire documents, or just data for templates... John Hicks Cerium Component Software Build Your Database Website with Our XML Team or Tools XML Outline | XML DB | XML Servlet 212-662-3982 | 888-742-8989 http://ceriumworks.com "Software as a conversation with a community." > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of > Tony McDonald > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 10:35 PM > To: xml-dev > Subject: Parsing XML->DOM and XSL querying optimising > > > Hi all, > > I have an application that consists of 140+ XML documents, roughly 100k > bytes each that I want to be able to query (using XSL pattern matching at > present) and output to XML/HTML and RTF format. This will happen in real > time (if at all possible). > > Additionally, I'd like to be able to search/query the entire repository of > documents and return a composite XML/HTM or RTF document from these. > > At the moment, I'm experimenting with the DOM parser in Python and finding > that a DOM parse takes about 4 seconds, whilst an XSL query takes > about 1.8 > seconds. > > I reckon that a user could wait the 1.8 seconds for a query, but > might start > to get fidgety after almost 6 seconds (how transient we are!). > > What strategies have people got for limiting the DOM parsing time? > > My own thoughts are that I load up all 140 documents at > server-startup time, > parse them into DOM[0]...DOM[139], store them into memory and then query > each one in turn in the case of a simple query, and query all the DOM > objects in the case of a full query across all XML documents. > > Is this sensible? practical? stupid? > > any thoughts on this would be appreciated, > cheers, > tone. > > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on > CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the > following message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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