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Jeff Rafter wrote:

>> Any way, to pick just one drop from the ocean, if I have a large 
>> address book, I would expect it to be very wide, and I would probably 
>> want to stream to process one entry at a time. 
>
>
> Ahh, this was a very helpful example-- I totally misinterpreted what 
> you meant by "wide"-- though in retrospect it would have been obvious 
> had I considered it's opposite "deep". So I agree.


I see.  I was probably thinking too literally in tree terms.  Colorado 
doesn't have many native trees that are wide, so I have to substitute 
*something* in my imagination, and sometimes XML does the trick :-)

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