I think the performance characteristics are more like a hash table. Plus, it's serializable to XML.
-Will From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of colin mcenearney Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 2:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] Why use maps in ML? Hi all, Why use the map:map structure in ML? Is it to make data available to entities that don't speak xquery? If performance, than why is a map faster than a simple xml doc which has been parsed into memory? <root> <map-like key="..." value="..." /> ... </root> Thanks, Colin
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