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Re: How far current XSLT processors will be useful in real applications?

• From: "KenNorth" <KenNorth@e...>
• To: "Simon Wilson" <Simon.Wilson@c...>, <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 03:04:44 -0800

> It seems to me that there are (at least) two broad categories of
applications
> here which require the ability to query against XML: 1) those that have
the data
> already available as XML and 2) those that don't.

There is yet another category -- the ability to execute queries over XML and
non-text data such as geocoded (geospatial) data, time series, images, and
so on. To do that, a query processor needs to use a variety of index types
(B-tree, quadtree, R-tree, etc).


================== Ken North =============================
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