How XML Threatens Big Data

[Michael Ludwig]

Ivan Pedruzzi schrieb:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Michael Ludwig <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk>
> wrote:

>> Also, it never fails to amaze me how people can think that documents
>> exceeding a certain size - 1 MB, okay: 5 MB - are a good idea. Just
>> imagine the amount of processing that has to be done before
>> discovering on parse completion that something's wrong.
>
> If you consider 5 MB documents a bad idea may be you are not using the
> appropriate tools :)
>
> Ivan Pedruzzi
> Progress DataDirect Technologies

If I control the whole processing pipeline I can use the tools I want.
But if I publish documents over the wire I may not be in a position to
tell consumers what tools to use.

-- 
Michael Ludwig