RE: [xml-dev] XML-enabled databases, XQuery APIs

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> Thanks for the reference. The paper puzzles me, though. In 
> section 4.1 they say that:
> 
> * parsing a 100K document typically takes 175K instructions

Sorry, I misread it. The figure they give is 175K instructions per Kbyte.
That then gives a parsing cost of the same order of magnitude as the
database loading cost.
> 
> Michael Kay
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