Is XPATH the way to search a data model?

[Pierre Didelon]

Brian Thomas wrote:

> 	Hi David,
> 
> On Monday 17 May 2004 04:35 pm, David Berry wrote:
> 

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> 
> 
>>My question
>>is, should we be optimising our data models specifically so that they can
>>be searched using XPATH? 
> 
> 
> 	"Yes" (if you mean XQuery + XPath).
> 
> 
I feel this very strange; optimization could perhaps influence implementation,
but not data models (according to one previous mail of G.Lemson if I understood
it well enough). This is a too short feedback loop and will "corrupt" data model
with ad-hoc restrictive solutions devoted to only one implementation.
Just my feeling,
Pierre