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Paul Butkiewicz wrote: > > But using XML for persistence in this case presents its own perils. XML is not optimized for update, retrieval, searching or anything else. It is optimized for interchange, interchange and interchange. So the question of the best persistence model for high-volume systems seems to me to boil down to a) "what data structure is fastest" and b) "what is the most convenient programatically." In other words, what data structures support business processes and with what sort of performance. I think that in the long run, flat text will lose out on both counts, but for now it is a good compromise. (anyone have any good arguments otherwise?) Object databases seem the obvious fit for convenience. Performance is harder. You could store a DOM or grove directly in an object database and retrieve it with no parsing overhead...but what about text searching? Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "In spite of everything I still believe that people are basically good at heart." - Anne Frank 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/ 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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