On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 14:55 -0400, Wendell Piez wrote:
Rob,
At 01:35 PM 6/4/2008, you wrote:
If you use a small main Source XML with the minimum necessary
instructions for a transform, then you can bring in the bulk the
required XML through the document function (maybe with a URIResolver
that uses XQuery, but...)
Isn't this effectively the same thing?
I had thought so, that was my point which I stated in a part you
snipped:
"I don't understand. What would be the benefit of pointing to an XSL
with
nothing telling it what to do? I mean, how would XSL even know what the
request was for without something driving it? And if you have something
driving it, you have what we have now. What am I missing?"
Don't the XML databases work best with many small documents rather than
one or a few very large documents?
I should think that depends on the database.
You should probably think that way, but I don't think it does in
reality. I'd be curious to know, though.
In any case, I didn't
intend to suggest that the classic architecture would become
obsolete, but merely to agree that Andrew was onto something that
could be very useful. For large-scale queries over aggregated data,
the classic mapping of single document to single result via a single
transform may not serve so well. This is where XQuery comes in. But
XQuery alone is a blunt instrument for final transformations for
rendering, which you are also likely to want.
Sure. I just tend to prefer small-as-possible documents pulled in with
the document function.
best,
-Rob
Cheers,
Wendell
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