On Tuesday 12 November 2002 00:22, Stefan Lischke wrote: > Hi, > > I've thinked a lot about this but i cannot find a good answer. Why has > XML:DB Api the concept of collections and "files" ?
[..] > has someone a good reason to use collection concept, > thinks someone like me? In Tamino you can restrict the content of a collection to one DTD/schema. Tamino uses the schema to optimize indices. So collections give you better performance, but less flexibility. Is it possible in xindice to search a collection and all subcollections? I don't think so. So what are subcollections good for? Martin
