Re: which is more effiecient and fast doc() or collec

2008/6/26 Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> I know we are only talking milliseconds here and what I'm currently working on
>> is just over 100 docs. But when it comes down to the other projects I work on
>> and it is now 10's of thousands if not 100's of thousands of docs then
>> efficiency might come into play.
>
> Won't memory come into play first - unless you use something like
> saxon:discard-document() those 100s of thousands of docs will all be
> held in memory....

I should add this would be another ideal case for an xslt front end to
an xml database....



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