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Ross, currently I'm busy designing an XML based log format myself. In contrast to "classic line based logging", appending indeed is prohibitively costly in XML. Thus I decided not to log into a wellformed XML document, but to stick with a sequence of <Event> type doc-fragments, just being well-formed per event. Of course one can not parse the result immediately, but at the time of log analysis (or whatever you do with your event data), it's trivial to pre- and append the necessary tags to enclose the doc- fragments. XML was just not designed to fit the demands of concatenatiation. But I found the value of structuring single events in a "semi-structured" (read: well-formed) way valuable enough to choose XML. The "missing enclosing tag" is not really a serious problem if you delay its insertation until REALLY necessary. ++im Ross Bleakney <rossb@w...> wrote at 7 Dec 99, 15:08: > I know of no XML API that allows for modifying a document. They make it easy > to create new documents out of old ones, but they don't allow you to modify > an existing file. Doing so would mean the possibility of optimization that > would greatly reduce disk I/O. For example, if you had XML like this: > > <Events> > <Event>...<Event> > <Event>...<Event> > </Events> > > It would be really nice to write code like this: > > ModifyXML modXML = new ModifyXML("MyDoc.XML"); > Element event = modXML.createElement("Event"); > event.appendChild(modXML.createTextNode("A big event happened")); > modXML.appendChild("Events", event); > modXML.update(); > -- Ingo Macherius//Dolivostrasse 15//D-64293 Darmstadt//+49-6151-869-882 GMD-IPSI German National Research Center for Information Technology mailto:macherius@g... http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/~inim/ Information!=Knowledge!=Wisdom!=Truth!=Beauty!=Love!=Music==BEST (Zappa) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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