Storing large text items in XML or Lua tables?

[bradio10]

Hi,

I have made a system so I can have multi language support and I currently have all the logic for translations in Lua tables, but I was wanting to know if it would be better to have all the tables in XML?

Would XML be more faster and more efficient than having them in Lua tables or would it not really matter?

Thanks.

[John Smith]

xml would make server lag if a lot of things are inside

a simple file would do fine in my opinion. [ you can e.g make a table and when u want to save a table to file use toJSON and save it, and when loading it use fromJSON ]

[Dealman]

Tables are pretty efficient, for example I made a parser which reads a file that has thousands of lines of text.

I then loop through this table, splitting each individual line into different parts to make it easier to use the data and store it in a new table.

All in all, the whole process takes around 6ms for over 1500 lines. That includes the entire process.

Read the file -> Store each line in a table -> Loop through the table, split the strings into parts -> Store into a new table

[jingzhi]

Hi,

I have made a system so I can have multi language support and I currently have all the logic for translations in Lua tables, but I was wanting to know if it would be better to have all the tables in XML?

Would XML be more faster and more efficient than having them in Lua tables or would it not really matter?

Thanks.

Marked

[ixjf]

xml would make server lag if a lot of things are inside

a simple file would do fine in my opinion. [ you can e.g make a table and when u want to save a table to file use toJSON and save it, and when loading it use fromJSON ]

This myth that XML will magically lag the server needs to end. It doesn't, unless you use it incorrectly, like anything else.