Hi,

thanks, cool tool!!

> We have just built another Xindice browser might be in-line with the hope of
> treating the entire database as a big document, although it doesn't
> implement any new storage strategy.
> 
> The difference of this browser from existing browsers is more data-centric
> (therefore the whole database is a big tree) rather than document-centric
> which cares more about collection and document names. Since Xindice itself
> doesn't provide enough information, the browser distill and maintain the
> schema from the database. If the schema doesn't change much, it doesn't
> require to refresh it every time.
> 
> The URL to get to the browser is as follow:
> 
>       http://www.brownpot.com/sw_profile.html
> 
> By the way, it is a open source.
> 
> Regards,
> Lixin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kimbro Staken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 3:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: implementing new storage strategy for large documents?
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 04:11  PM, Tobias Berlinger wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > 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.
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> >
> > any comments please :-))
> >
> > regards tobias
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> 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
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