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Subject: Re: Hello and question
From: John Austin <john@integerservices.no-ip.com>
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As always, ... it depends ...

You haven't said how many different time-series files you will
be using and you haven't said how often these will be updated
and/or queried.

Your proposed solution may be appropriate and quite simple to
implement or it may be a disaster in the making. Outsiders
can't help you without much more information.


On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 16:47, Brent Eades wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A word of introduction... I belonged to the list a year or so back, 
> but got sidetracked from Cocoon for awhile. Now I'm back tinkering 
> with 2.04, and have no shortage of questions.
> 
> Here's one (a rather broad and newbie-ish one.) In my project I have 
> a large number of XML files that correspond to time series. Each is 
> the same format:
> 
> <timeSeries>
> 	<seriesName>P12345</seriesName>
> 	<observation>
> 
> 		<date>2001-03-12</date>
> 		<value>1.25</value>
> 
> 		<date>2001-03-13</date>
> 		<value>1.28</value>
> 
> 	</observation>	
> </timeSeries>
> 
> ... etc.
> 
> Now: using the various mechanisms available through Cocoon, how best 
> would I "query" a given file (directly, as opposed to through a 
> database) via an HTML form, e.g., to extract and display only 
> selected dates/values?
> 
> I have a vague grasp of various ways I could do this if my data were 
> to reside in an intermediate DBMS of some sort, but the objective 
> here is to store each time series as an XML source file only, while 
> still being able to query it.
> 
> Does this make any sense? :)
> 
> -----------------------------
> Brent Eades, Almonte, Ontario
>      http://www.almonte.com
>      http://www.bankofcanada.ca
> 
> 
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