On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:38:40AM +0100, Wolfgang Laun scripsit:
On 19 November 2010 11:19, Graydon <graydon(_at_)marost(_dot_)ca> wrote:
I am reluctant to approach the problem with xsl:key because I have about
90,000 individual files in a complex directory structure and I would
need a key over all of them, rather than each of them.
Since far as I know -- and happy to be wrong! -- I can't declare a key
over a collection, so this approach would require concatenating all of
the files together. Which is certainly doable but also inherently
sluggish.
So the initially posted loop will have to be extended to iterate over
90,000 files...?
Yes.
And, when there's more content, to check some specific sequence of areas
over a larger number of files.
Right now, I'm doing that via XQuery in eXist, since while it is in
principle simple to extend that loop to operate on a collection I'm
pretty sure that will slam into resource limits somewhere. That might
be the better problem to solve; one of the reasons for asking the
question (along with the hope that there's an easy way I just don't know
about :) was to get advice about which problem to solve.
-- Graydon
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