XML Not good for Big Files (vs Flat Files)

[Alex Hunsley]

You are making some invalid assumptions:
[...]

4. That if I state something false and someone corrects it, because I
originally said otherwise, people will believe me despite evidence.

Well, there is evidence of that happening... See for example:


http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/cc836308fd1ddc43

I got the impression that in that post the guy was saying that he meant
Roedy was right in a general sense, i.e. Roedy hadn't done anything
wrong and the other guy was just going off it, rather it being anything
to do with the HTML compression issue any more....

 

[Roedy Green]

Well, there is evidence of that happening... See for example:


http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/cc836308fd1ddc43

That was a pretty ambiguous post. I think it highly unlikely he meant
that he believed there is no HTML compression.

 

[data_mechanic]

There is an approach that has not been explored here. DFDL is an
attempt to define a standard so that legacy binary flat file can be
converted to and from XML. If this is done then there is no logical
difference between a binary flat file and XML. Then there need not be
an argument about flat file vs. XML.

DFDL took forever to be defined, however there are quite a few
converters that use the general idea but uses their own specification
to do the job. Here is my own attempt:

http://www.datamech.com/XMLForm/XMLandBinary.html


There are advantage in using either flat file or XML. Flat file is
easier to read and generate from a single application than XML. A flat
file can be much more compact than any compressed XML file. On the
other hand, XML can be easier if multiple applications have to be
developed independently to use the data. XML data has schema to tell if
data is valid. So a converter that can bridge the two approaches make
sense.

 

[Kent Paul Dolan]

I've been on Welbutrin for many years, Roedy, and on meds
for over two decades.

Being lied to still makes me angry.

Most people have the same reaction.

xanthian.

 

[Roedy Green]

Being lied to still makes me angry.

Please quote the alleged lie.

 

[Roedy Green]

I've been on Welbutrin for many years, Roedy, and on meds
for over two decades.

If you are bipolar, you have to stop taking antidepressants during a
manic phase. Check with your doctor.

 

[Kent Paul Dolan]

Please quote the alleged lie.

Umm, are you grown senile as well?

http://groups.google.com/group/talk.bizarre/msg/21c092c0a10c7a3a

xanthian.

 

[Oliver Wong]

That was a pretty ambiguous post. I think it highly unlikely he meant
that he believed there is no HTML compression.

Good point. I hadn't considered the interpretation Alex proposed until I
had read his post.

- Oliver

 

[Roedy Green]

Umm, are you grown senile as well?

http://groups.google.com/group/talk.bizarre/msg/21c092c0a10c7a3a

My request is that you quote the lie not point to the thread in which
you believe somewhere I lied. Please understand that I don't believe I
lied and that you are unjustly accusing me, perhaps of merely
disagreeing with you, which you may be equating to lying since you
seem to think you are infallible at the moment and that your logic is
so impeccable that any disagreement would have to be disingenuous.

 

[// u l i e n]

My request is that you quote the lie not point to the thread in which
you believe somewhere I lied. Please understand that I don't believe I
lied and that you are unjustly accusing me, perhaps of merely
disagreeing with you, which you may be equating to lying since you
seem to think you are infallible at the moment and that your logic is
so impeccable that any disagreement would have to be disingenuous.

Please keep in mind that if you have lied in Kent Paul Dolanworld, you have
become a non-person and effectively died. There is no greater harm than
lying in Kent Paul Dolanworld. It sets you up for a future of non responded
posts, just a Kent Paul Dolanpost to your lie, showing that you are dead to
him, and can no longer be a part of functionable debate.

 

[Roedy Green]

Please keep in mind that if you have lied in Kent Paul Dolanworld, you have
become a non-person and effectively died. There is no greater harm than
lying in Kent Paul Dolanworld. It sets you up for a future of non responded
posts, just a Kent Paul Dolanpost to your lie, showing that you are dead to
him, and can no longer be a part of functionable debate.

Do you think he means lie in the Canadian sense of deliberately
deceive or the informal sense of say something that was not true?

If the second, I am doomed.