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Re: indexing and querying XML (not XQuery)

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Subject: Re: indexing and querying XML (not XQuery)
• From: Robert Koberg <rob@k...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:28:22 -0400
• Cc: "'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Then what you want are the equivalent of 
> parameterizable stored queries, somewhat 
> the equivalent of the way engines like 
> Crystal Reports work.  Feed them a schema 
> and they will give you back a UI with all of 
> the queriable values from which you select, 
> parameterize and store the queries.  It's 
> a report generator for XML documents.


But wouldn't that require loading *all* the XML docs to be searched into 
memory? (I don't know Crystal Reports) (my work is in a webapp 
environment). Using Lucene provides an extremely fast result set using 
minimal memory.

-Rob


> 
> len
> 
> 
> From: Robert Koberg [mailto:rob@k...]
> 
> I was trying to start a conversation about using an XML indexing system 
> in a particular problem domain - not something as grand as what you and 
> Alan are are talking about.
> 
> To me using something like Lucene provides for a much faster and much 
> less memory consuming process to search large collections of XML 
> documents or relational databases (whether they are story XML or not).
> 
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