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

[Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com> writes:

> Surely you wouldn't return a delimited string, you would return person
> nodes and then select the values from the returned nodes?

Yes, good point. I will see if I can change the test to do this.


> Also, the comparison isn't quite right - the only fair thing would be
> time how long it takes to output the information to a file or standard
> out (the gui language would likely be different in either case, say
> swing vs html)

Well, my original claim was that in a use case where we have has to
interface with other, non-XML data sources, query most of the data
in the document and perform multiple such queries, XML data binding
will perform better than XQuery. Michael asked for evidence and I
came up with this benchmark. I believe for this scenario the
comparison is fair since both the data binding and XQuery tests get
input information and send output by calling native programming
language functions.

Boris

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