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A raw text file search should be way faster, but it really depends on how you're doing the search. Bob Ram Sundar wrote: > Hi, > > I have a text file that contains all the meta data of documents and > folders like name, created date, modified date, owner etc. I generate > this text file everytime a user wants to search for the meta data > through python. I have a web interface where the user can input the > necessary parameters he/she wants to search for. But, this operation of > reading the information from the text file is slow. It becomes extremely > slow, if there is quite a lot of information to go through, naturally. > > Now, I was thinking that I can store the meta data as an XML file > instead and use the XPATH option available in python to retrieve the > necessary information. > > Do you guys think that storing the data in an XML file and using the > XPATH search will be faster than the text file search? > > Thanks for you input in advance, > > Ram
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