Steve Holden, 25.12.2010 16:55:
On 12/23/2010 4:34 PM, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:
For large datasets I always have huge question marks if one says "xml".
But I don't want to start a flame war.
I agree people abuse the "spirit of XML" using it to transfer gigabytes
of data
I keep reading people say that (and *much* worse). XML may not be the
tightly tailored solution for data of that size, but it's not inherently
wrong to store gigabytes of data in XML. I mean, XML is a reasonably fast,
versatile, widely used, well-compressing and safe data format with an
extremely ubiquitous and well optimised set of tools available for all
sorts of environments. So as soon as the data is any complex or the
environments require portable data exchange, I consider XML a reasonable
choice, even for large data sets (which usually implies that it's machine
generated outputo anyway).
Stefan
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