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In the first place, why should you have huge XML files? (Except those wikipedia dump files :))
by exim 14y ago
In the first place, why should you have huge XML files? (Except those wikipedia dump files :))
- willvarfar 14y agoXML is often used when migrating datasets, large and small. Interchange between disparate systems is the very thing its good for.
- archangel_one 14y agoOpenStreetMap is another example that uses huge XML files. I'm not sure I really like the idea, but it does happen, and if you need the data then you have to be able to deal with it somehow even if you don't like the format.
- human_error 14y agoIt happens sometimes. I had written a multithreaded parser in C++ to parse around 800MB per day so another team could build up the rest of the project based on the data. Someone had thought it'd be a better idea to store all fetched data in XML.
- mercurial 14y agoI had to deal with relatively large XML dumps containing dictionary data.