Re: Re: DHTML browsers [was Accessibility]

Adam Fields wrote:

>It depends. XML is great for hierarchical structuring, but unless
>you've also got a good XML object store, it's generally terrible for
>querying or editing partial documents. 
>

I don't agree. We use Jakarta's Lucene to index our XML content and 
configuration (running the XML through a SAX ContentHandler). You can 
index at a very fine and make complex queries. And it is fast.

Here is a quick tutorial on how you do it. It is for java but it is easy 
enough for most developers to understand the concepts of XML indexing:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-lucene/

best,
-Rob


>That is to say - it's a good
>part of an answer, but it's not the whole answer.
>
>I find that XML is useful as an interchange format, but generally not
>great for storage.
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