"Steve Holden" <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >On 12/23/2010 4:34 PM, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote: >> For large datasets I always have huge question marks if one says >"xml". >> But I don't want to start a flame war. >I agree people abuse the "spirit of XML" using it to transfer gigabytes >of data,
How so? I think this assertion is bogus. XML works extremely well for large datasets. >but what else are they to use? If you are sending me data - please use XML . I've gotten 22GB XML files in the past - worked without issue and pretty quickly too. Sure better than trying to figure out whatever goofy document format someone cooks up on their own. XML toolkits are proven and documented. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
