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Re: XML-enabled databases, XQuery APIs

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• Subject: Re: XML-enabled databases, XQuery APIs
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:17:48 -0400
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On Apr 19, 2005, at 1:07 AM, Ronald Bourret wrote:
> (I was also curious about use case 3.6 -- Electronic Documents -- 
> since some implementations of these are done today on top of embedded 
> native XML databases. The use case description asks of the binary 
> format many of the things found in native XML databases / an XML data 
> type: indexes for random access, security, efficient update, ability 
> to combine document fragments, and so on. I suppose the idea is that a 
> generic document browser based on such a format would require less 
> memory than a DOM-based browser and an embedded native XML database.)

This depends on the definition of "database". In many cases, you don't 
really even need read-write capabilities... just the ability to 
instantiate a DOM tree when you need to combined with the ability to 
rapidly navigate to arbitrary nodes in the tree (i.e. a random-access 
DOM). There are any number of ways of providing that, and in almost all 
cases I would not call the result a "database" as such. For that 
matter, I'm not sure that XQuery makes all that much sense in many of 
those cases either.

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