RE: Variable length variables and data queues

I have to admit than when I read the start of this thread, I said to
myself "huh?  trying to force an XML document into a data queue?  
that'd be awkward..."

It would certainly make more sense to use a vehicle that is capable of
working with the data as a "stream" rather than as a "record", and this
would mean using sockets for communications and stream files for storage.

In fact, if you're receiving the data from a web server via sockets, 
writing it to a stream file is REALLY simple.   (In fact, the sockets
tutorial that I'm writing uses that as one of the first "getting started"
examples)

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) wrote:
> 
> I guess my other option would be to make it as big as possible.  Is there
> any performance considerations with this?  I would be wasting a lot of space
> for each data queue entry.
> 
> Maybe I am going about this all the wrong way.  Instead of trying to fit my
> whole XML string into this data queue maybe I should just write the XML
> string out to a stream file in the IFS and put the path to the file in the
> data queue and have the program monitoring the data queue go and get it from
> the IFS.
> 
> Thinking hard,
> Aaron Bartell
> 

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