[Zope] XML Doc and speed

[Phil Harris]

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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