How to generating XML hierarchical structure

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:55 am

XML should be "one long string". Only peoples 'need' that pretty printed structure, no consumer of the file will. However, the Formatted option in the stage will do something like that for you... emphasis on something like that. My advice? Don't bother, continue to let tools like IE (temporarily) do that for you automagically when you peek at it.

FranklinE · Post by **FranklinE** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:50 am

From my POV, I would very much rather it be "one long string" for a simple reason: People will insert control characters where they don't belong. I recently had to deal with a line feed break in a message field because the person creating it (test file feed) didn't like the way it looked.

eostic · Post by **eostic** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:09 am

It also takes up less space. I've seen REDICULOUSLY large xml documents that were reduced by a third in size just by removing blanks and carriage return line feeds. Important when you are shipping them all over the place in transactional packets.

Ernie

Hope · Post by **Hope** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:52 pm

Thank you all