[phpXML] Re: [phpXML] Large amounts of data

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On Friday 06 July 2001 17:30, you wrote:
> I'm using phpXML to export/import object heirarchies in an application
> server. I haven't run into the memory limit yet, but when the application
> server starts getting some real use people may want to back up an entire
> site.
>
> I'm thinking of creating an extension of phpXML that stores node content in
> a temporary file instead of keeping it in memory. The method
> set_external_content() will write to a file pointer and then set some node
> attributes like ext_ctnt_position and ext_ctnt_length. The method
> get_external_content() will use those attributes to seek to that position
> in the file and grab the specified content.
>
> Any thoughts on this? Pitfalls? Interest?

obvious disadvantage for one-off use is that it would be much slower. If this 
were reasonably static data, you could store the result in a permanent file 
as a sort of Xpath index, and then use that in your scripts - I quite like 
that idea, especially as other users could then use the index instead of 
rereading the file every time.

xml files are no different from any other flatfile 'database': reading an 
entire large file to extract a small amount of data is not a very efficient 
thing to do. Without knowing your application, I would say as a rule of 
thumb, if xml files start getting large, either move to dbms with proper 
indexing or find some way to split into smaller files.

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