>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew@[...].com>
>  To: <xsl-list@[...].com>
>  Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:35 AM
>  Subject: RE: [xsl] General Searching query
>  
>  
>  >
>  >
>  > Thanks for all of your comments, maybe I should clarify a little.
>  >
>  > The current system runs on IE5.5, with all processing performed
>  client-side.
>  > No servers are involved.  At the moment, there are around 
>  10,000 XML files
>  > installed on each of the standalone clients.  This sounds a little
>  strange,
>  > but is set in stone.
>  >
>  > The current searching method is to build an index file of 
>  all the words in
>  > the transformed HTML, and include that with the product 
>  release.  Because
>  > the XML files arent going to change, this method works fine 
>  and is very
>  > fast.
>  >
>  > Of course, this isnt fully taking advantage of the fact we 
>  are using XML.
>  > It would be good to allow name-value searching, utilising 
>  the structure of
>  > the XML.
>  >
>  > So I would guess from your responses that this is a 
>  non-starter,

Unsure about speed, I've just run a search on an xml database with 12000
records
in about 4 seconds, using dbXML, http://www.dbxml.org/
All done client side, using xpath queries.
 If the source is marked up sufficiently well, you could index off it.
Might be worth looking at, as a means of disk based access.

HTH DaveP

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