Use parsed external entities.
The document never changes and reads
<log>
&data;
</log>
The data file contains the records:
<entry>...</entry>
<entry>...</entry>
<entry>...</entry>
<entry>...</entry>
and you can append to it any time you like.
This is about the only time I ever use external entities.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Gutierrez [mailto:]
> Sent: 18 January 2005 07:57
> To:
> Subject: [xml-dev] Appending XML to File
>
> I was wondering if anyone had used XML in a logging context.
>
> Have you wanted to append XML to file, or store XML events to
> file? How did you do this and manage to keep the document well
> formed?
>
> 1. Create a directory structure contianing a document for each
> event.
>
> 2. Create a file that contains one document after another, each
> representing an event..
>
> 3. Seek to the start of the last element, overwrite with
> event and new element.
>
> Option 1 sounds unwieldy, option 2 creates a peculiar file, and
> option 3 sounds fragile.
>
> Insight is much appreciated.
>
> --
> Alan Gutierrez -
>
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