Re: General Searching query

I don't view XSLT as a search tool, I view it as a transformation tool. If
you are using MS products, I'd either use SQL Server 2000 (you can get a
free version of the database engine) or one of the emerging XML databases
and do your querying there before doing your transformations. You don't want
to ask IIS to act as a database, querying 250 thousand documents when
requests are made, and you don't want your XSLT processor, whether MSXML or
anyone else, generating 250,000 trees in response to a user request, unless
you've invented some wonderful caching system you'd like to share with us
all.

Unless I'm not understanding the question.

regards,

Chuck White
The Tumeric Partnership
http://www.tumeric.net
chuck@xxxxxxxxxxx
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:03 AM
Subject:  General Searching query


> Hi,
>
> Imagine the scene:
>
> 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.
>
> The solution you are looking for will be fast, and scalable because you
know
> eventually it will have to search up to 250,000 XML files.
>
> What kind of stylesheet is best for this task??  Any ideas welcome
>
> Thanks
>
> andrew
>
>
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>
>


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