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-"""This script duplicates adjacency_list.py, but optimizes the loading
-of XML nodes to be based on a "flattened" datamodel. Any number of XML documents,
-each of arbitrary complexity, can be loaded in their entirety via a single query
-which joins on only three tables.
+"""Uses the same strategy as
+ ``adjacency_list.py``, but associates each DOM row with its owning
+ document row, so that a full document of DOM nodes can be loaded
+ using O(1) queries - the construction of the "hierarchy" is performed
+ after the load in a non-recursive fashion and is more
+ efficient.
"""