>>medium. Even a SQLite database table should do better, and you can ship it >>around just like a file (just can't open it up like a text file). > > > A table helps only if the data is tabular (i.e. a single relation), > i.e. probably never (otherwise the sending side would have shipped > something like CSV).
Perhaps the previous poster meant "database file", which for some systems describes the "container" of the whole database. If the XML has redundancies represented in "linked" data, data normalization can cut down on the needed space. my 0.02 EUR thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
