Data storage layer

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Walter Vaughan (Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:08:56 -0400):

> I've been whining about filePro's data storage layer. It's a pain to
> write one-off exports up the ying-yang.
>
> What about this.
>
> Change the key segment from fixed width records to XML.
[...]

XML is not designed for random access reads and updates.  I suppose that
in theory filePro could enforce its own access as fixed-length XML data
(basically replacing the 20-byte overhead now with some larger overhead
for the XML "wrapper"), but if anything else touched the data and didn't
enforce the fixed-length XML, or if any data in the record would require
expanding the record, then then entire file would be corrupt.

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