Hi,
I am building an app that deals with a fair bit of people relationship data
coming down as XML, so the hierarchical nature of XML actually comes in handy
here. I have a few options: one is to serialize each person XML node into an
object, and setup the appropriate data structure for hierarchical data
traversal (e.g. rooted tree). Another option is to keep everything in memory
as XML and accessed the node data via E4X. The third option is to take a
hybrid approach, won't consider this route right now unless this appears to be
the best.
My concern is that instantiating thousands of objects will create a performance
issue (happened at another project that dealt with thousands of dto's), not to
mention it's very slow to instantiate lots of objects. At the same time, I am
not sure how fast E4X is at dealing with large XML.
Which approach would you take? Which one is likely to scale better? Large
in-memory XML + E4X traversal or data structure with lots of objects +
algorthmic tree traversal?
- boon
