It could very well be true for unicode text which would align with your discovery but I would say that if there was numeric data it would be stored more efficiently as binary than as text which would occur when you parsed the xml. 4 bytes for a large float where as the text equivilent could be 8 or more (in fact 16 since it would probbly use 2 bytes per character).
Might be worth running a few more tests. 2009/1/22 Ross Phillips <r...@fingersdancing.com> > > I did a quick test using the CF8 monitor tool to figure out if XML is > larger when stored as a String or a XML object. As suspected the XML > object is larger but only by about 80 bytes. I was only using a > simple XML structure and I would expect this to change when the XML > gets more complex. > > myXML = "<node>data</node>"; > Application.before_myXML = myXML; // 72 bytes > Application.after_myXML = XMLParse(myXML); // 152 bytes > > Cheers, > Ross > On 22/01/2009, at 10:13 AM, Matthew wrote: > > > > > @charlie: sorry, I think I lead you a little astray with my response. > > You are right I did want to know both if the output of parsed XML and > > the amount of memory it takes up is large than un-parsed. Your comment > > about all the extra CSS / HTML etc makes sense. > > > > @everyone: I ommited one point from my original post. The reason I'm > > interested in how much bigger parsed XML is is because the error > > emails I was getting were huge (some were 13Mb!!!). I assume that if > > the are big when being outputted in email than perhaps they are large > > when held in memory. The answer may be that the are only large when > > outputted due to all the HTML/CSS etc where as in memory they are > > still quite small because it's just struct/arrays etc. > > > > @barry: don't worry I'm not stuppid enough to do what your predecesor > > did. My data is customer specific! > > > > I'm on CF7 by the way so I can't use the new CF8 feature to work out > > the size of a vaiable. > > > > Cheers > > Matthew > > > > > > > > -- Cheers Simon Haddon Woman loves feeling danger and speed. That is why woman wants man. They get a speed rush that is the most dangerous of all. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
