In response to all sorts of things, Ayudh said: >Whenever you need to store data records in a plain text file, it's a job for >XML. It's not that hard to get into and once you've set it up, you'll never >regret the flexibility it offers. If you're only using the data within CF, >maybe use WDDX which provides some nice shortcuts.
I would add a strong affirmative to that. We have monitoring templates that are running constantly in the background on every server and as some are remote we keep network traffic down by dumping the data in WDDX packets to files rather than constant database updates. We might set up a structure of data items, say the log traffic data for every website on a machine, that is almost empty at the beginning of a scanning period, save it as a WDDX packet in a file then read, add data and save again many times before the system picks up the data and we start again. If your original data is structured in any way then turning it into a WDDX packet is trivial and saving that packet as a text file equally so. The reverse is also true so if you need to read the data, amend it and then save it again a WDDX packet is the way to go. -- Yours, Kym --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
