On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder why you reply to my e-mail without replying to what I wrote in it. > > > David Hutto, 21.12.2010 10:12: >> >> . >>>>>> >>>>>> I sympathize with you. I wonder who thought that building a 1GB XML >>>>>> file >>>>>> was a good thing. > > This was written by Steven D'Aprano. >
My bad, human parsing has errors too. > >> If it is: >> >> XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. >> >> XML is designed to transport and store data. >> >> >> Then what other file medium would you suggest as the tagging means. > > There are different file formats for structured and semi-structured data. > XML certainly isn't the only one, and people have been defining specific > formats for their specific use cases for ages, for better or worse each > time. But it's all a string of coded text with only the formats that define the markups within though. String format + text in file(type of coding for lang) > > Personally, I don't think GB-sized XML files are bad per-se. It depends on > the use case, and it depends on what's considered a suitable solution in a > given environment. Also note that XML tends to compress pretty well, and > that it's sometimes faster to parse gzipped XML than uncompressed XML. So > the serialised file size by itself isn't an argument, either. So the zipped file in compressed doesn't contain compressed tags, or data, then why is it compressed? > > >> You have a file with tags, you can't parse and store the data in any >> file anymore than the next, right? >> >> So the tags and how they are marked by any module or file extension >> searcher shouldn't matter, right? > The phrase: <tag> in a php file <tag> in a xml file <tag> in an html file. if read in any file it's the same, as <tag> How does the file extension make it any longer? This is know matter how it's interpreted by any other mechanism than just reading the text within, right? > I don't think I can extract the intended meaning from the assembled words > you use here. > > Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- They're installing the breathalyzer on my email account next week. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
