• To: Pranav <pranav@i...>
• Subject: Re: Searching of a record in a XML file
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:35:50 -0800
• Cc: XML <xml-dev@l...>
• References: <008f01c1a4af$00b46920$1ecc7f42@informica>

1) If you are using an XML document as a database, think twice. As you
have noticed, it's not very efficient, and by the time you finish adding
everything you need to make it efficient / useful / etc., you'll have
built a DBMS. It's generally easier to buy / download one instead.

2) If you do have a good reason to search through an XML file for a
given record -- ad hoc queries of documentation are a good example of
such a reason -- you'll get far better performance if you index the XML
document and build software that can use the index. This is one type of
native XML database. For example, see:

   http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/sigir00-xml/final-papers/Egnor/index.html

-- Ron

> Pranav wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
>          I've a XML file and this file having around 1000 records. I
> using JavaScript DOM methods for searching the record. But it's taking
> much time in this searching. Is it due to because of I am using DOM
> method? Is there any way so that I can reduce this searching time?

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