They won't need to, all they have to do is to open ie and have a page
like:

<disc letter="C" type="HD">
 <folder name="Documents and Settings">
  <folder name="..">
   ...
  </folder>
  ...
 </folder>
 <folder name="Program Files">
  ...
 </folder>
 ...
</disc>

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martinez,
Brian
Sent: terça-feira, 21 de Janeiro de 2003 21:27
To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE:  Max size?


> From: J.Pietschmann [mailto:j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:57 PM
> Subject: Re:  Max size?
> 
> 
> Michael Kay wrote:
> > In the longer term I'm sure we will see XSLT processors
> that access XML
> > databases natively rather than relying on the input tree being in 
> > primary memory: this is one reason why the synergy between XSLT and 
> > XQuery is so important.
> 
> The next version of MS Windows will have an RDBMS based file system.
> 
> Your note raises the interesting perspective that in some years OS 
> might use mixed XML/RDBMS natively instead of a classic file system 
> for storing all kinds of information, in particular mail, documents, 
> spreadsheets and presentations.
> 
> What opportunities would arise from this? Would the benefits outweight

> the cost?

I can envision the help desk calls already:

"I'm sorry, ma'am, you can't just type 'dir' anymore, you have to use
'saxon -o STD_OUT c:\ dir.xslt'"

;-)

b.

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