Re: Can XQuery handle hierarchical data?

From: <mikharakiri_nospaum_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 14 Jan 2005 10:13:12 -0800
Message-ID: <1105726392.693038.69480@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

Neo wrote:
> Script below models the hierarchy with an experimental db (not
XQuery)
> and walks the tree recursively.

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Impressive! When googled "Bill of materials XQuery", however, the first entry is 3 pages of spaghetty code in XSLT: http://forums.tamino.com/3/OpenTopic?a=tpc&f=7922934291&m=656106161" Try to beat that!

Now, every other google reference on that page claims that Bill of materials extremely easy to do in XML. Which bill of materials? Finding all the descendants? Perhaps. The question is if query ability scales up so something little more complicated than that. Finding aggrergated cost of all the subparts, for example. Received on Fri Jan 14 2005 - 12:13:12 CST