Jim Weinheimer wrote:
>
> The advantage of the MARC format above is that it takes less computer memory,
> but this is not much of a consideration anymore.
31 bytes instead of 2 per subfield is much. For elegance, too much.
> The advantage to XML is not the XML per se, it's that it can work with XSLT
And XSLT is elegant? (Straighfoward, intuitively comprehended, swiftly
written, nice to look at, easily debugged ...)
>
> Also, with programs such as Lucene and Zebra, we may not even need
> databases anymore, since the XML records can be indexed
Lucene does not require XML, it can index other structured stuff too.
"Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine
library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly
any application that requires full-text search, especially
cross-platform."
B.Eversberg
Received on Mon Aug 27 2007 - 05:44:40 EDT