Re: Using XML for audit trail

Sam,

Do you have any insight into the size and volume of the logs in these
systems.  John indicated that they had failures using XML for logging.  Have
you seen this?

Thanks,
-Mont


On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Sam Baskinger <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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