Re: How to search HUGE XML with DOM?
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Re: How to search HUGE XML with DOM?

From: bayerj <bayerj@in.tum.de>
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 18:17:00 CEST



Mind, that XML documents are not more flexible than RDBMS.



You can represent any XML document in a RDBMS. You cannot represent any


RDBMS in an XML document. RDBMS are (strictly spoken) relations and XML


documents are trees. Relations are superior to trees, at least


mathematically speaking.



Once you have set up your system in a practicable way (e.G. not needing


to create a new table via SQL Queries for a new type of node, which


would be a pain) SQL is far superior to XML.



Anyway, cElementTree seems to be the best way to go for you now. Its


performance is untopped by any other python xml library, as far as I


know.


Received on Sun Apr 30 21:47:48 2006