hi Kimbro, > > we are working with xindice (cvs) since 6 months. in our situation we > > handle medium documents with deep structures. > > > > now we have to decide to split the documents and use the collections > > for building parts of the hirarchy. the disadvantage in this way is > > that xpath and xupdate don't work over collections. > > > > large documents are not supported by xindice. in my opinion > > implementing a new storage strategy for xindice would not be very > > helpfull. if i could work with very large documents, why use > > collections? > > Personally I'd love to see collections become unnecessary. The database > model is much cleaner if you can treat the entire database as a large > document with the ability to index and manipulate any portion of the > document. I doubt collections will go away though.
true! it would be cool to have one big document structure in the database like http://www.infonyte.com/en/prod_pdom.html. to realize this there are modifications across the whole xindice necessary (indexing, xpath, xupdate, filer, dom, etc.). > > the other way is to support xpath and xupdate and indexing against the > > collection tree. ok this sounds crazy but why not? > > Cost of maintaining indexes is the main problem, but regardless this is > something that should be possible to do. thanks for your optimism :-) we are interested in developing on and with xindice to support one big document or querying document over collections (this would be something like a big document, realized with collection but with the disadvantages you described) > > > > any comments please :-)) > > > > regards tobias > > > Kimbro Staken > Java and XML Software, Consulting and Writing > http://www.xmldatabases.org/ > Apache Xindice native XML database http://xml.apache.org/xindice > XML:DB Initiative http://www.xmldb.org > regards tobias ______________________________________________________________________________ 160 Zeichen sind fur Ihre SMS zu wenig? Bei WEB.DE FreeMail koennen Sie bis 760 Zeichen versenden! http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021183
