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Re: [xml-dev] Text based search or Xpath search

From: Bob Foster <bob@------.--->
To: Ram Sundar <ram0812@-------.--->
Date: 1/9/2006 1:51:00 AM
A raw text file search should be way faster, but it really depends on 
how you're doing the search.

Bob

Ram Sundar wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 >     I have a text file that contains all the meta data of documents and
 > folders like name, created date, modified date, owner etc. I generate
 > this text file everytime a user wants to search for the meta data
 > through python. I have a web interface where the user can input the
 > necessary parameters he/she wants to search for. But, this operation of
 > reading the information from the text file is slow. It becomes extremely
 > slow, if there is quite a lot of information to go through, naturally.
 >
 > Now, I was thinking that I can store the meta data as an XML file
 > instead and use the XPATH option available in python to retrieve the
 > necessary information.
 >
 > Do you guys think that storing the data in an XML file and using the
 > XPATH search will be faster than the text file search?
 >
 > Thanks for you input in advance,
 >
 > Ram


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