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> From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> Behalf Of Alexander Iliin
>
>
> By the way, did anyone actually use Microsoft's XML SDK? I am now
> working in a team which recently begun using it (not me personally,
> though). I heard from teammates that while creating an XML file it
> uses about 10 times more memory than the resulting file will be
> (i.e. 12Mb output file = 120Mb RAM while generating it). That is
> from 4Mb binary source file (which is about the same size to keep in
> memory). Excel and Internet Explorer crash when try to open the
> result.
>
Yes - that was one of the first experiments I did when I started in .NET
Because the .NET datagrid (i.e. table) can automatically load an XML file
and display it with just one or two statements it was very attractive.
I have a very simple single set of data with about 30,000 rows and a dozen
columns. It was original stored in a text TSV (tab-separated values) file
that I was displaying in a table with a Delphi program. The file size went
from 2Mb to a 20Mb XML file. That I could have lived with, but not the fact
that it took about 1 minute to display instead of 1 or 2 seconds. I did not
stop to look at the memory usage.
The next step was to write a couple of simple functions to load the original
TSV file into a .NET datagrid and I was back to the 1 or 2 seconds response
time. Consequently, I do not relish the thought of having to use any system
that relies on non-trivial quantities of XML data.
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp
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