Judith Barer wrote:
> I am not taking one dbf file and transferring it to another. What I am
> doing is sharing data. I work for a kosher certifying agency and what I
> am doing is sharing data with other certifying agencies so I am supposed
> to create csv files of our data and download csv files of other agencies
> data. There are definitely better ways to approach this issue such as
> using web services and such but we are not doing that. We had agreed
> to use XML files which worked fine but the files are quite large. So
> some agencies requested to use csv instead. For me csv seems to be a
> hassle but using cursortoxml and xmltocursor worked very nicely for me.
>
I knew there had to be a good reason. :-) I was going to suggest the
cursortoxml, but you specified csv. However, since they agreed on XML,
you might want to look at some of the white papers on
www.west-wind.com. Rick discusses compressing XML during transfer,
IIRC, which might be the best of both worlds. Anyway, good luck!
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