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RE: indexing and querying XML (not XQuery)

• To: 'Robert Koberg' <rob@k...>, "Steven J. DeRose" <sderose@a...>
• Subject: RE: indexing and querying XML (not XQuery)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:42:07 -0500
• Cc: 'XML Developers List' <xml-dev@l...>

In the small, I agree, Robert, but when the system 
gets very large and has strict performance metrics, 
tough issues of storing and sorting very very large 
datasets, mining the data, and so on, it really is 
hard.  There are dozens of committees grinding out 
specifications and standards that can be included 
into a contract with a single sentence.

The CALS vets will understand: we really have to 
build the bloody thing this time and it is much 
more real time than last time.  The time of 
programmer experimentation and Starbucks programming 
over a latte is over.  This is back to the cube, 
long hours, kiss your wife and kids goodbye until 
the deed is done stuff.  The good old days....

Guys like deRose who really know this down to 
the nits can be very helpful.

len


From: Robert Koberg [mailto:rob@k...]

Steven J. DeRose wrote:

>So assembling a system that works well from the tools at hand is 
> far from trivial. 

I don't know if that is true or at least not as bad as you make it out 
to be. If you use the 80/20 rule (as is generally understood today), I 
think it is trivial - for simple folk like me. It comes down to the best 
way to deal with the current reality. If you want to cover everything 
then you will never get there (an archer shoots an arrow which has to go 
half way first always).

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