On Sep 22, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > I've been asked to take the iTunes XML file from a few people and provide a > picker to choose which one to use. That's the easy part. So I have a few of > the XML files and slapped them on a server, etc. however each one averages > about 5MB in size. I am not linking to actual media obviously, but I'd have > to think 5MB XML files are pretty big to be loading and parsing on an > iPhone.
If your users don't have unlimited data plans, they might want to think twice about allowing that download over WWAN, but 5MB is not undoable. It doesn't take hours to download. > Should I let this person know that this just isn't feasible on an iPhone? If > it's doable, should I use something other than NSXMLParser? Absolutely. NSXMLParser uses about twice the memory and time of libxml on small files, and doesn't allow you to parse the data in chunks: you'd have to download the entire 5MB before you can start parsing. Look at XMLPerformance sample code to get started with libxml's push parser. Good luck, Hank _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
