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Re: XML Schema: "Best used with the ______ tool"

• From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@c...>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:38:16 +0200

Hi Michael,

Michael Kay <mike@s...> writes:

> Yes, I'll be happy to run this. 25seconds for a simple search of 800Kb
> sounds very slow indeed. 

Well, it is 100 searches.


> One question though, it's not clear to me whether you are measuring 
> the time taken to load the XML, or only the time taken to query it.

Only the time it takes to query it (100 times). The XML document is
pre-loaded in both tests.


> My instinct would be to have the query return a sequence of nodes to
> the calling application, and have the calling application extract the
> attributes that it wants from those nodes.

That sounds fair. I just did what seemed easiest with the API I had.
If you think that returning something like DOM nodes would be better,
then I see no problem with it since that would result in the equivalent
functionality that is probably also less complex.

Boris

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  • Re: XML Schema: "Best used with the ______ tool"
    • From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@c...>
  • RE: XML Schema: "Best used with the ______ tool"
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>