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* Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> [2005-01-18 05:06]:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Gutierrez [mailto:alan-xml-dev@engrm.com]
> > Sent: 18 January 2005 07:57
> > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: [xml-dev] Appending XML to File
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone had used XML in a logging context.
> >
> > Have you wanted to append XML to file, or store XML events to
> > file? How did you do this and manage to keep the document well
> > formed?
> >
> > 1. Create a directory structure contianing a document for each
> > event.
> >
> > 2. Create a file that contains one document after another, each
> > representing an event..
> >
> > 3. Seek to the start of the last element, overwrite with
> > event and new element.
> >
> > Option 1 sounds unwieldy, option 2 creates a peculiar file, and
> > option 3 sounds fragile.
> > Insight is much appreciated.
> Use parsed external entities.
>
> The document never changes and reads
>
> <log>
> &data;
> </log>
>
> The data file contains the records:
>
> <entry>...</entry>
> <entry>...</entry>
> <entry>...</entry>
> <entry>...</entry>
>
> and you can append to it any time you like.
>
> This is about the only time I ever use external entities.
This is perfect, Michael. Thank you.
--
Alan Gutierrez - alan@engrm.com
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