Re: [xml] using large binary chunks / binary XML?

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 10:59:49 EST

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:41:04AM -0600, Timothee Besset wrote:
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> How well does the zip approach allow file modification? Let's say I end up
> with a zip file that's 300Mb, in which I randomly add and remove chunks (of
> the size of an average file, say 100kb)? I understand this zip format would
> be fine for reading, but I'm a bit worried about writing performances :-)

  Well I don't care too much about writing performances, it's a packaging
format not a filesystem. Similary XML is a good interchange format but I
would not make it the internal memory representation of my programs data.

Daniel 

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