Re: combine xml files

We're getting closer, I think.  If a work can appear, with a different
format,  in more than one xml file, then how can you tell when an entry in
one file is for the same work as an entry in another file?  You need to be
able to do that, it would seem, or you won't be able to match up entries.

What data is contained in any one xml file?  Is it data on one single work
from one single database?  Is it many works, but all from one database?  Is
it one single work, but possibly from many databases?

Are you expecting to get a fast response when looking through 1000 files for
each query?  How fast?  Or can it be a batch process?  Even doing a
directory listing of 1000 files can take some time, depending on your
system, and that's not doing any processing on the files.

Cheers,

Tom P

[Ming]

>
> To make my explanation easier to understand (sorry for the misleading),
I'm
> going to describe my task.
>
> Actually I'm doing the "View Marked" function after a search.  The saved
> searched are saved in a temporary file with the session id as the file
name.
> And each entry in the file is a complete path to a xml file. So, the
number of
> xml files saved in the temporary file can vary from 1 to 1000.  After the
user
> click on the view marked button, I need to display the title and author
> information for each xml file to the user. So, it's a
> dynamic process.
>
> For the title in each xml file, the title format for each database is
slightly
> different and so are others such as author. That's why we have a
preference
> list for titles, authors, etc because different group of people prefer
> different display format for titles, authors, etc.
>
> Yes, I need to look through each xml record since some titles appears only
in
> one database and some appear in more than one database. So, the <db*> tags
are
> different. And I need to find out the most preferred one to display from
my
> preferrence list.
>
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