RE: General Searching query

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Lenz
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:08 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  General Searching query
> 
> 
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> > > You have around 20,000 xml files, all around 10k in size. 
>  You have 
> > > to
> write
> > > a stylesheet that will run on IE5.5 using MSXML2.5 (possibly v3) 
> > > that
> will
> > > search the XML files, based on a name-value pair.
> >
> > If I were you, I'd decline the assignment. Its just plain 
> silly. this 
> > is what god gave us databases for!
> 
> The only truly silly part about his requirement is that the 
> XSLT run on IE/MSXML. Take that away and it's still silly 
> only because no one has yet implemented XSLT over a 
> persistent document store (alternatively, "XSLT as a query 
> language"). In other words, XSLT isn't scalable, only because 

XIS from Excelon does.
You can store your documents and then apply transformations or perform
queries on them.

You will find more here
http://www.exceloncorp.com/platform/index.shtml



Ivan



> traditional implementations require the input to be loaded 
> into memory. On the other hand, an implementation of XSLT as 
> a query language wouldn't have this limitation. It would 
> target a different processing model, where the input 
> documents are known ahead of time, as opposed to coming in 
> fresh off the wire. This alternative processing model is part 
> of what the TransQuery effort is addressing. See http://transquery.org
> 
> It's up to vendors to answer this promise. My company is 
> working on it.
> 
> Evan Lenz
> XYZFind Corp.
> 
> 
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