Re: Approach to transform 250GB xml data

Sorry, for some reason your message arrived before the OP's response so I read
it without context.

Michael Kay
Saxonica
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On 10 Sep 2014, at 12:35, Wolfgang Laun wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My quip was meant to urge OP to forward a more accurate description of the
requirement - "not sorting" isn't very positive.
> -W
>
> On 10 September 2014 13:21, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 10 Sep 2014, at 11:59, Wolfgang Laun wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > "Sorting" is just one particular case of "changing the structure".
> >
>
> Yes, but it's not true that all structural changes are non-streamable. For
example, order-preserving grouping and flattening operations, and many
aggregation operations, are streamable.
>
> I simply chose sorting as a concrete example of something that was
self-evidently non-streamable. Of course it was only an example.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
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