XML tools and big documents

[David Megginson]

Ingo Macherius writes:

 > > [...] it makes more sense to build the specialised object tree
 > > directly from the event stream rather than building a DOM tree
 > => Put it into an OODBMS

No, not exactly -- I'm suggesting building an application-specific
object tree, not a generic XML one, and am not particularly concerned
with where it is stored.

 > So when it gets big, use a database ? Did I get this wrong and XML
 > was never ment to be a storage paradigm ?

XML is for interchange -- for simple applications you can use it for
storage (as I do on my notebook), but for larger, multi-user
applications, you probably want to put it into some kind of
specialised storage, if only for the sake of revision and access
control.


All the best,


David

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