Thanks. This is for internal use, so it's going to be Wifi. This is for testing only really (a UI). Good to know 5MB XML isn't too big for iPhone/Touch.
Google Voice: (508) 656-0622 Twitter: eric_dolecki XBoxLive: edolecki PSN: eric_dolecki http://blog.ericd.net On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Hank Heijink (Mailinglists) < hank.l...@runbox.com> wrote: > 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
