On 2/9/06 11:06 PM, "Mark Wieder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Mark, >> Also in ideal these tools must be able handle queries to XML document. >> This can be Xpath, Xquery, or SQL/XML. > > ...and I'd advise staying away from XPath as well. It's gotten > splintered into too many proprietary spinoffs. > > XQuery is much easier to read (IMO) and is pretty standardized these > days. Hmm, Mark, but Xpath is some kind of part of Xquery. Xpath also have standard. Under proprietary may be you mean implementations of engines? But this is not a problem. SQL also have standard. And many DBMS vendors implement it. > The only thing you can't do with it is update a document. Exists draft of XUpdate. Big sure that in near future it will be included into standard > To my mind, a 100MB xml document is poorly designed. It should be > segmented into a hierarchy of smaller documents or exported to a > database. But nobody asked me. -- Best regards, Ruslan Zasukhin VP Engineering and New Technology Paradigma Software, Inc Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information http://www.paradigmasoft.com [I feel the need: the need for speed] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
