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posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 10:41am on 23/01/2008
Badly, is all too often the answer.

(A colleague decided that XML was a sensible file format for saving data to. So far, so good. Except that instead of saving a string as an attribute in one case, he saves the individual characters, each as a separate sub node. Can we say, file bloat? Can we say, impossible to find a damned string when looking for it?)
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posted by [identity profile] devilgate.livejournal.com at 11:50am on 23/01/2008
My jaw is sore from hitting the table.
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posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 11:58am on 23/01/2008
I should clarify - not all strings are treated this way, only the strings that provided the text to be displayed for text shapes. These are, of course, the only lengthy strings we need to worry about.

Combine that with an all-on-one-line XML serialisation routine, and it gets difficult to examine the file and determine which text shape is responsible for the misspelt 'SPECAIL OFFER'.
Edited Date: 2008-01-23 11:59 am (UTC)
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