> From: Adrian Petru Dimulescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Hello, > > I imagine a search engine which would propose several relevant paragraphs in > several books of a small digital libraries. The user woud click on the first > result and cocoon serves the 2nd paragraph of the 3rd chapter of Genesis of > the Old Testament of the Bible > (in other words: http://url/bible?select=1/1/3/2 ) > > It would be then nice to be able serve a subtree of my choice. > > I would also like the user to be able to browse a tree-like structure of this > small digital library. The user opens the "Bible" node and then the Genesis > node and then its first subchapter. Then he closes everything up and opens > the, say, Shakespeare node, and then Macbeth and then its acts. > > The idea, I guess, is to build an arborescent structure of books. > > * > I am no expert in XSLT processing but somehow I took for granted that > isolating a *small* subtree of a *big* XML should not mean actually scanning > the whole big file.
It does mean exactly this, unless you help it with predicate like [1] to extract only first occurrence. Then it could be possible to scan only from the beginning of the file to the end of the desired chapter, and not all file. > I suspect however that Xalan validates the XML before doing the transformation No, Xalan does not validates XML. And Xerces also does not validates XML - with default Cocoon settings. > which is slow because then the *entire* file has to be actually scanned. In It has to be scanned because of other reasons. > that sense, I wonder if it is possible to disable validating. It is disabled by default. Vadim > > Best regards, > Adrian. > > > > On Sunday 19 May 2002 21:51, William Brogden wrote: > > Scanning the entire bible to pick a chapter seems very > > wasteful. If you never serve more than one chapter, why > > not store the chapters separately? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
