> xmlfs is a pain because it has anonymous entries so you need a way of > organising it > > <xml> > <a><b>123</b></a> > <a><b>456</b></a> > </xml>
once upon a time, when god was a small boy i worked on a distributed search product. the search engine we were using was OpenText whose chief tech guy was (drumroll) tim bray. ot returned hitlists as byte offsets encoded in (oh, you'll never guess) xml. i don't recall the formatting exactly, but a hitlist looked something like <hitlist><hit><start>2313131</start><end>2313138</end></hit>... one can imagine that using careful formatting to increase the amount of data that needed to be moved by an order of magnitude resulted in spectacular performance. ah, the good old days. - erik
