RE: [xml-dev] When parsing speed matters (was Re: [xml-dev] No XML Binar

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

> > *cough*While I love XML as everybody else on this mail list,  HUGE 
> > perfomances problems that ask for hardware can be a sign on the sky 
> > some people is using XML where a relational database can be
> > better*cough*

Well I've had someone recently complaining(!) that Saxon takes 15 minutes to
process their 15 Gbyte XML file, and that was my reaction too. But I think
they are actually taking a real-time data feed and selecting the data they
want to put in the database, which seems a reasonable approach.

What I don't know is how much they would be prepared to pay for a solution
that processed the same file in 1 minute. That's the test. 

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/