Hi, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vadim Gritsenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > From: Kimbro Staken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > We need a richer language then XPath to do that. It will come with > XQuery, > > but it's a long way off. We'll need to figure something out in the > short > > term, but I'm not sure what. XSL-T is probably the best solution > today. To > > keep the size of the result set down you might need to limit the query > to > > just retrieving the last 7 days of posts or something along those > lines. > > Not ideal, I know. > > Isn't Xindice collection already ordered by time document was inserted? > > Than simple query like /db/blog/*[position() > last()-20] should work > then, or something like /db/blog/*[position() = > last()]/preceding::*[position() < 20] should even inverse the order... > this would lead to bad performance. Each time you have to grab all the nodes in /db/blog [don't know the structure of the XML...] you could create a xsl:key on 'time', cache the stylesheet, and access it much faster. -Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
