Chris, XMLDocument is deprecated you should really be looking at ParsedXML which should be much faster. Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Gray" <cpgray@library.uwaterloo.ca> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 6:42 PM Subject: [Zope] XML Doc and speed

I've been playing around with the XML Document Product again and I've run into a limitation that I have run into before: large XML documents process slowly. Getting data out of an XML Document is much slower than fetching data from an external relational DB.

The trouble is that I have a large number of records that are hierarchically structured. Getting the data into XML is a lot easier than using SQL where the structure of each record demands that each record get spread out over a dozen or so tables.

I'm doing this in one large XML file with the children of the root element each representing a record. Would I gain any speed by giving each record a separate XML Document?

Thanks, Chris

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