So will the file be 500k and not more or do you mean it could grow to 6mb or 60 mb? If so, you definitely don't want to have all of this in one file, perhaps even with 500k. I had troubles in AS2/FP8 parsing 250k files occassionally, but FP9 may be better at handling larger XML files and parsing them. It would be really really easy to test even before they give you the actual file, just create dummy XML file and try to load it in a read data from it.
With that much data though, you may want to try and split it up into separate XML files and load them either as needed, or preload them one at a time before doing a search. You could categorize by year, or alphabetical, or whatever makes sense based on the data they give you. And if you can easily clean the files to strip out uneeded data, even better. If you can get them to produce an even cleaner file for you, even better than that obviously. Lucky for you, since you said you can use AS3, searching using E4X syntax is going to be a whole lot easier and likely faster. Jason Merrill Bank of America GT&O L&LD Solutions Design & Development eTools & Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal GT&O Innovative Learning Blog and & subscribe. >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >>Of Glen Pike >>Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:25 AM >>To: Flash Coders List >>Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search >> >>The system can use AS3 - as it is a CDROM. >> >>I asked about the data size - at the moment, a sample XML >>file, generated by an automatic tool is about 500k, gulp. >>That means, 6MB per year, 60MB per decade at the moment. >> >>I have asked to see the file, because there may be a lot of >>rubbish that can be eliminated - I hope so.. >> >>Glen >> >> >> >>Merrill, Jason wrote: >>> First questions to get out of the way is which version of >>Actionscript >>> and potentially how much data (in k)? >>> >>> Jason Merrill >>> Bank of America >>> GT&O L&LD Solutions Design & Development eTools & Multimedia >>> >>> Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community >>> >>> >>> Are you a Bank of America associate interested in >>innovative learning >>> ideas and technologies? >>> Check out our internal GT&O Innovative Learning Blog and & >>subscribe. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>Behalf Of Glen >>>>> Pike >>>>> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:50 AM >>>>> To: Flash Coders List >>>>> Subject: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I have been asked to look at a search facility for a CDROM >>>>> project. >>>>> >>>>> The customer is archiving magazines, 1 a month, for a >>decade per >>>>> CD and wants a simple search engine. >>>>> >>>>> The magazines will be archived as scanned images plus XML data >>>>> containing page text content. >>>>> >>>>> Loading in an XML file and searching / filtering is >>pretty easy >>>>> in principle, but I am guessing I may run into >>performance issues as >>>>> the amount of data is scaled up. >>>>> >>>>> Google is proving fairly useless today, so has anyone had much >>>>> experience of this and have any recommendations. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>>> Glen >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Glen Pike >>>>> 01736 759321 >>>>> www.glenpike.co.uk <http://www.glenpike.co.uk> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Flashcoders mailing list >>>>> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >>>>> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >>>>> >>>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Flashcoders mailing list >>> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >>> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >>> >>> >>> >> >>-- >> >>Glen Pike >>01736 759321 >>www.glenpike.co.uk <http://www.glenpike.co.uk> >>_______________________________________________ >>Flashcoders mailing list >>Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >>http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
