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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] XML format for kabc
From:       Tobias Koenig <tokoe82 () yahoo ! de>
Date:       2002-05-21 10:46:43
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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:30:37AM -0400, Mike Pilone wrote:
> On Sunday 19 May 2002 12:59 pm, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> > at the moment I'm writing a xml format for kabc. Now my questions
> > is, are there already defined tags for pim xml documents or can I
> > define my own ones?
> 
> I would suggest against this. As Cornelius has pointed out, xml is not very 
> resource friendly nor is there a standard for pim data in XML. Rumor has it 
> that TrollTech may be dropping XML from Qtopia since it is not meeting 
> performance requirements. They are looking at switching to a binary 
> database type format. XML has the major problem of requiring complete 
> parsing when looking for a single field. 
Ok convinced... :)

> Binary, LDAP or SQL may be a better solution.
Did somebody already implement one of the above backends?

Ciao,
Tobias
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