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RE: Question for updating existing XML file

• To: "'Maxim Grinev'" <maxim@g...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Question for updating existing XML file
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:18:06 +0100
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How do you update your XML files? 
Example:
  (in a huge XML file...)
  <Entry>
   <name>Jon</name>
  </Entry>
  ...

If I want to update the name to Joe, or add another name Jane.  So the node looks like this:
  (in a huge XML file...)
  <Entry>
   <name>Joe</name>
   <name>Jane</name>
  </Entry>
  ...

Is there a way to do this kind of update without rewrite the whole file?  My file is about 50MB.  

 

I wonder whether this is a wise way of using XML. Even with XML databases, most databases are optimized to handle large numbers of small/medium documents rather than a single gigantic one. I don't think that using an XML document as a replacement for a database is a particularly good idea. It's not the job it was designed for.

Michael Kay

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