From: Jeremy Hanford <hanford_j@...>
Date: 2006-05-17T15:53:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Nonlinear scaling - could symbols help solve this?

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> > Thanks for the response.
> >
> > You are right that my CSV file is very much like a database table (used to load database tables). However, my XML document is not so tree-like and actually fits pretty > well into a hash of hashes of arrays.
> A non-tree-like XML document? Are you *required* by the downstream user
> to create XML?

Yes, the XML document and its structure is part of a legacy system for importing data into a database. Crazy hey - we convert a database like format into a hash of hashes of arrays and then the legacy system reads the data out of the XML document and inserts it into the database?!?

The initial csv file is a format that I have created to import directly into the database but unfortunately not all customers are upgrading to the latest system so we end up having to be backward compatible... the joys of customer support.