I agree with Mark on this. We've been building a somewhat data intensive application for the iPhone here at work. I was responsible for building a layer of web services, and the infrastructure below that layer, that would serve up what the iPhone needed based on a set of XML input specs. It has worked out rather well to this point.
Chris Stewart [email protected] On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:28 PM, DanH <[email protected]> wrote: > You might want to look into XML "pull parsing": > http://www.xmlpull.org/v1/download/unpacked/doc/quick_intro.html > > There is support for it on the phone. > > On Jul 23, 2:05 pm, Capt Spaghetti <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have 50 XML files located on a remote server, one formatted for > > each state. I am able to read each of the 50 files by selecting a > > state from a spinner and using a SAX parser but I cannot seem to find > > out how to pull out information from each file by city. I have tried > > unsuccessfully to pass a city variable to the characters method of the > > Handler. > > Each state has thousands of records and I am looking for a way to > > speed up the search since reading the entire file for a state takes > > several minutes. I used SAX since it was supposed to be the fastest > > way to read but it limits me in selecting specific information. If I > > understand things correctly I could use a DOM parser to find my state > > and city specific data but that would make retrieval even slower. Any > > suggestions would be appreciated. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

