RE: [xml-dev] XML Schema: "Best used with the ______ tool"

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

> If you'd like to try a comparison, I have an 
> earthquake data set and schema I use for comparing web 
> service stack performance. The client queries the server for 
> quakes within specified time, location, and magnitude ranges. 
> The server responds with all the matching quakes, grouped by 
> geographical area (using predetermined standard areas) and 
> sorted within each area by date/time. I'd love to see this 
> implemented using XSLT or XQuery by someone who knows what 
> they're doing, to see how the performance compared with the 
> data binding implementations.

I'd be happy to give it a try if the logic isn't too complex (it doesn't
sound it, unless the geographical calculations are very complex).

Is the server keeping the data in memory, or parsing it afresh each time?

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