[XML-SIG] Zope and DOM

Uche Ogbuji uogbuji@fourthought.com
Tue, 06 Jun 2000 09:59:04 -0600


> >>>>> "PP" == Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:
> 
>  PP> "Rob W. W. Hooft" wrote:
>  >>  I'll be waiting for this, as currently a 37kB XBEL file which I
>  >> read into Zope using XMLDocument (actually a Zsubclass [or is that
>  >> subZclass?]  XBELDocument that I wrote) turned into a 550kB
>  >> ZODB.... I guess with the power you are describing here that can
>  >> be made a lot more efficient.
> 
>  PP> Unless you do some tricky stuff, a 10* blowup is par for the
>  PP> course in importing XML documents into object databases. All of a
>  PP> sudden you've got pointers all over the place from elements to
>  PP> their parents and to their siblings and so forth.  
> 
> Reading the original message, I thought that the "tricky stuff" might 
> become available. If the dom-ification could stop at the "bookmark" level
> in an XBEL file, the total amount of objects would drop significantly.

This is precisely the tricky stuff we have in mind.  The current thinking is 
to use a (lightly) specialized XSLT transform to specify how elements are 
converted to ZObjects.


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