Re: Amazon's "Simple" Database

On Dec 18, 4:12 am, "Roy Hann" <specia..._at_processed.almost.meat> wrote:
> I've got a couple of customers who have found out the hard way that parsing
> gargantuan XML documents can kill the biggest systems. Presented with the
> option of using schema-based transformation or switching to files of
> fixed-width fields they both opted to abandon XML entirely and are delighted
> with their new fixed-width field files.

Or use XML-complient structure:

<comma_separated_doc>
a,b,c,d
e,f,g,h
...
</comma_separated_doc>

It is much funnier read on the dailywtf.com, but I'm unable to recover the reference:-) Received on Tue Dec 18 2007 - 18:33:07 CET