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In article <00c401c19e00$34312870$2cd0a340@paultx> you write: >3. find -name -exec script {} \; >makes a simple, practical and scalable >processing model for UNIX filesystem >( OK - for some of us ). It supports inserts >and updates, actually. It supports inserts and updates by not storing the data as a flat file. A plain XML file is not a good way to do this in general. Perhaps you would be better off with something that let you view your file hierarchy as XML! It would not be too difficult a project for an undergraduate to write an NFS server that let you mount an XML file as a filesystem. Works across the net too! What about attributes? Perhaps this is what Apple ("resource fork") needed all along. I would certainly like to be able to put processing instructions in my directories. Plan-9 gives you UTF-8 filenames. Just think... you could validate your directories. -- Richard
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