XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

Depending on the circumstances, consider embedding Berkeley DB or using  
another DB product, and having one record per mail. [Many email clients  
do it that way].

Wolfgang.

On Mar 29, 2005, at 9:02 PM, jason mazzotta wrote:

>        I'm trying to use an XML document as a database for e-mail  
> messages.  The form of the document, shown earlier, separates the  
> e-mail into different mailboxes.  The application that uses this XML  
> document stores e-mail, allows the user to move e-mails into different  
> mailboxes, remove an e-mail altogether, or add and remove mailboxes.   
> From what I know about using XML so far, it really is not suited to  
> this purpose.  Making changes to an XML document becomes more costly  
> in terms of time and hardware resources as the document becomes  
> larger.
>       From reading the XOM website, it hinted at faster performance  
> for dealing with large documents.  What I was looking for was a way to  
> minimize resource usage for the tasks described above (e.g. moving an  
> e-mail from one "mailbox" to another).  However, as far as I can tell,  
> if you're going to make a random change to an XML document, you must  
> know the form of the entire document to begin with.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Jason Mazzotta
>
>
> On Mar 29, 2005, at 11:03 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>
> > jason mazzotta wrote:
> > > Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not quite sure I understand.  If  
> > > you were going to examine things an element at a time, I'm not sure  
> > > how you'd compare the shape of the document in its current form to  
> > > the one in memory.
> >
> >
> > You need to be clearer about what it is you're trying to do. You  
> > haven't given anyone enough information yet to decide if what you're  
> > attempting is possible or not with XOM.
> >
> > -- Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
> > XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
> > http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/
> > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ 
> > ref=nosim
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