Best way to import XML Files

[George Simon]

If I'm still limited by the 32K field size, what is the difference?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at bestweb.net]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 1:17 PM
To: George Simon
Cc: Filepro 2 List
Subject: Re: Best way to import XML Files

George Simon wrote:
>
> This is basically the same way I did it.
> I just finished writing the code and it seems to work just fine.
> I discovered that filePro will let you use graphic characters as field and
> record delimiters, so I used chr("249") which is a period in the middle of
> the line ( · ) as both my field and record delimiters.
> Since this character is never found, filePro imports the entire file into
a
> dummy in one step.  No need to replace the >.
[...]

If you're going to read the entire file in one gulp anyway, why not just
use the file I/O functions instead?

Just remember that you're still limited to the 32K-1 field size.

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