13 Jul
2001
13 Jul
'01
8:26 a.m.
On Thu, 12 Jul, 2001 at 23:07 +0100, Dermot Musgrove wrote:
maybe I'm missing the point but isn't this exactly what XML is for?
Not really. If you're exchanging data between two systems that you are responsible for, and you know what the data is, there's little need to use XML. For this purpose, a CSV file would be more than adequate and probably about as efficient as you could get. (Whereas an XML file would be overly verbose, and you should probably put together a DTD or XSchema for it.)
If you were exporting data and you didn't know who was going to use it, then you might consider XML.
Andrew.
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