Navigating XML in LiveCode

[stephen barncard]

one can even store fields that contain returns - replace them with an
'invisible' character such as vertical tab and each record will be one
line. Tab-delimited text is so much easier to deal with - the text chunking
commands you already know work great - and are very fast.

On 24 January 2012 11:52, Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:

> > Ken - ever helpful! I'm sorry I grumbled about not getting replies.
> That's just stupid, given that everyone on this list is busy, and it's bad
> manners too. Anyway your reply (which I haven't quoted in full) shows me
> how to get round my specific issues, so I see that it can be done: what I
> have to do now is to decide between a perhaps more appropriate structure
> using arrays, with the disadvantage of having to put them in a stack and
> save it to get persistence, or to put up with the rather clunky XML
> functions (yours or LC's) in order to get a simpler storage solution.
>
> If it's *really* simple, you might want to consider a simple tab-delimited
> text file - by far the easiest approach, IMHO.
>
> :D
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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