[tlug] Re: A question about XML

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

<burlingk@example.com> asked:

> Also, which libs do people preffer for dealing with XML?
>
> I am contemplating messing arround with XML for data files for a project I
> want to mess with.
>
> The project would involve loading objects into a dynamic list.  I do not
> think I want to deal with the XML file in real time, as I am not sure how
> fast that would be, but rather load the data into memory, then save it to
> the XML file at save points.

I write a lot of XML files, but rarely actually *use* it because I don't
find it that tractable. For moving data around I prefer either text files
or SQL (mySQL, PostgresSQL) databases.

The couple of times I had to rip into XML data, I used libxml. Worked fine and
took a lot of the pain away, but it was S L O W, ISTR.

I use xmllint, which comes with libxml, to validate the XML I produce.

Jim
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Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/