Stephen Russell wrote: > On Nov 16, 2007 7:44 AM, Man-wai Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Oh and who would save data in a dbf when you have xml that is >> >> consumable in so many other applications? >> > And is hugely verbose and insecure? >> >> Does XML have a format for index? > > XML is just a container for text. You consume it into an object of > your choice for use.
XML is a pretty sucky data storage format, once the size of the XML grows past some threshold. I'm about to ditch iTunes because I'm tired of waiting for it to load my iTunes library (one gargantuan xml file) every time I start it up, and I'm tired of it taking longer than necessary to save my changes. I believe iTunes uses sqlite internally (IOW, it loads the xml into sqlite for internal use) which seems very wasteful. It should just save the sqlite database to disk as the library, instead of the xml file. Then, if someone wants to export their library, save that as xml. IOW, XML is a great data transfer and sharing format, but a sucky storage and efficient random-retrieval format. -- pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
