> The suggestion JSB has made looks to be in accordance with a "pure" XML > or HTML layout, but in the DSTO application I'm involved in we're using > the Xerces-C parser to build our DOM at low level, so the approach of > tagging each table point will result in many more short nodes in the DOM > rather than one node with a very long content string. In effect, > navigating the DOM tree could be slowed down quite a lot (including for > access to data not related to the table), and the DOM might require more > memory just for the parser's internal structure. > > On the whole the current structure seems a reasonable compromise.
Let me clarify that I wasn't suggesting a move to tagging each table data point. In fact, I like the format of the gridded table as it is now. It's quite similar to the way we do it in JSBSim. I had gotten into a discussion with a more hard-core XML guy recently, though, and some of the points he made seemed sensible. But, I wanted to get some opinions from others who are doing similar work. The answers are pretty much along the lines of what I expected - that is, there's not really any convincing reason to tag each data point. Jon
