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keelerjr12
keelerjr12

Reputation: 1903

Formatting XML for easy reading

I have a list of file names and each file has a checksum. What is the best way about organizing this data in an xml file? So far I have:

<tables>
    <table name="test1.txt">"KMDalk4lsmxf#lsfjs_akmf3"</table>
    <table name="test2.txt">"asd6o9iASla0gbd#0saaj234"</table>
    <table name="test3.txt">"S9rk2jalkjf93klsa+jmskl2"</table>
    <table name="test4.txt">"aj54oislkaoi309aSWpoa2JD"</table>
</tables>

Now, using XMLReader I want to be able to find a table by name only and then return the checksum. How do I go about this? Is it best to use attributes or elements for file names?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 112

Answers (1)

Sergei Rogovtcev
Sergei Rogovtcev

Reputation: 5832

Store checksum in attribute, like this:

<tables>
    <table name="test1.txt" checksum="KMDalk4lsmxf#lsfjs_akmf3"/>
    <table name="test2.txt" checksum="asd6o9iASla0gbd#0saaj234"/>
    <table name="test3.txt" checksum="S9rk2jalkjf93klsa+jmskl2"/>
    <table name="test4.txt" checksum="aj54oislkaoi309aSWpoa2JD"/>
</tables>

It will be more consistent.

But in fact there's no much difference, most performance will go into finding a node with matching name anyway.

Upvotes: 2

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