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RE: Disk-based XPath Processing

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Uche Ogbuji'" <uche@o...>,"'Tatu Saloranta'" <cowtowncoder@y...>
• Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:33:36 +0100

> 
> What you describe in the above para is pretty much exactly 
> what Amara's pushbind and pushdom allow, and the trimxml tool 
> that John L. Clark mentions, exposes this approach on the 
> command line.  They use a subset of XSLT patterns (which are  
> themselves a subset of XPath, as defined int he XSLT 1.0 
> spec) to drive a streamable operation that only loads into 
> memory one subtree at a time from a larget document.

Saxon also allows streamed evaluation of a subset of XPath expressions. The
facility, and the XPath subset, are described at
http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/sourcedocs/serial.html

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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  • Re: Disk-based XPath Processing
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...>