On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 11:26 -0400, David Lee wrote:
[...]
> Its
> true that some work has been done with 'streamable xpath' that can avoid
> this is some cases, but in general, the high level XML tools in general
> (XPath, XQuery, XSLT etc) are based on an in-memory representation.
> (ignoring XML Databases for the moment).
"They're in memory except when they aren't"? The Working Groups
designing XPath 2, XSLT 2 and XQuery 1 were very aware that the data
model instances over which these languages operate might not be entirely
in main memory...
> Fortunately there is some awesome work going on to support streamable
> subsets into XPath, XSLT and XQuery ...
There are already streaming XQuery implementations (although I don't
know any standalone ones that are developed actively today)
> If you didn't have XPath you probably couldn't implement your "simpler"
> solution any more efficiently, and would loose in flexibility.
We do agree here ;-)
Liam
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