Xindice doesn't have any restrictions on what you put in a collection. All it has to be is proper XML. According to the architects of Xindice, it is designed for lots of small documents, not a few large ones.
It can be indexed to find documents in a hurry. regards, Mark Colin Surprenant wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently evaluating Xindice for my project and I have a few questions > before moving on and trying it. > > 1- When creating a collection, are there any restrictions on each document > structure within the same collection? For example, if my collection is a > contact list where each document is a single contact and my first contact > document looks like this: > > <contact> > <name>...</name> > <home-phone>...</home-phone> > </contact> > > then my second contact document looks like this : > > <contact> > <name>...</name> > <cell-phone>...</cell-phone> > <email>...</email> > </contact> > > Will it still be possible the create indexes on such a collection on a tag > that migh not be present in all documents? > > 2- Are there any restrictions on the number of documents in a collection? Is > it an acceptable design in Xindice to create a collection that will handle a > very large number of small documents? (for example in the order of hundreds > of thousands of documents), what about performace? > > Thanks for your input. > > Colin Surprenant -- Mark J Stang System Architect Cybershop Systems
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