Re: Using XML for audit trail

FWIW, other systems use many small XML documents (xml records) that are
appended to a file. Reading the log is then reading many XML documents in a
row.

Sam

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Ryan Heath <[email protected]> wrote:

> You may want to read xml fragments.
> See [0] for a good example.
>
> HTH
> // Ryan
>
> [0]
> http://www.clariusconsulting.net/blogs/kzu/archive/2007/08/03/29281.aspx
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Mont Rothstein
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I want to use XML for an audit trail.  The problem I am having is that I
> > would like to only use append operations to write to the file.
> >
> > My thought had been to write an element to each line, with sub-elements
> and
> > the end on the same line.  I could then parse each line when reading the
> > file.  The problem is I can't figure out how to get the XML for a
> > node/element/document, and all of the sub-elements, to write out as a
> single
> > line.
> >
> > Alternatively  I could use some other mechanism to parse the file and
> read
> > each audit entry (xml element with sub-elements) in sequence.
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to either write the XML as a single line or a
> > preferred method for parsing elements in a file one at a time?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Mont
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