Re: [igraph] persisting graphs

[Csardi Gabor]

Another possibility would be to pre-compute the properties
and store them in a seperate database/file/whatever. If 
you can precompute them.

Gabor

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:24:26PM +0100, Tamas Nepusz wrote:
> >Hence I was thinking by storing it as XML I
> >could query the graphs and select the ones I want.
> You can store a GraphML representation as part of an XML document, but  
> the problem is that when you actually try to retrieve the graph and  
> select the ones you need using an appropriate XPath query, you will  
> have to copy the XML representation of the graph subtree to a separate  
> temporary file before you load it into memory, since the Python  
> interface can only read GraphML graphs from files. I don't know if  
> it's appropriate for you or not.
> Or maintain a Python shelve.Shelf object and an XML database  
> simultaneously: you query your XML database, grab some unique IDs of  
> the graphs you need and then quickly deserialise them from your Shelf  
> that uses the same unique IDs as the XML database. I think that's the  
> best solution if storage space does not matter.
> 
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> Tamas
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