Discussion about SDL

As we all know, SDL is represented as XML format. I found that representing
the report layout in XML make the size of report grow very fast and hurt the
performance significantly.
I am currently working on a project with complicated reports. When the
report size grow to several MB, editing the report costs a lot of time.
Does anyone have similar experience? And is this essential to represent the
report layout in XML rather than binary? If the report is in binary and can
be exported to XML, would it be better?Using the RDL reader/writer you can have your report in Assemblies and
serialize or deserialze whenever you want:
http://www.rdlcomponents.com
Thanks
Jerry
"Johnny Chow" wrote:
> As we all know, SDL is represented as XML format. I found that representing
> the report layout in XML make the size of report grow very fast and hurt the
> performance significantly.
> I am currently working on a project with complicated reports. When the
> report size grow to several MB, editing the report costs a lot of time.
> Does anyone have similar experience? And is this essential to represent the
> report layout in XML rather than binary? If the report is in binary and can
> be exported to XML, would it be better?
>|||SDL?
Do you mean RDL?
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"Johnny Chow" <JohnnyChow@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> As we all know, SDL is represented as XML format. I found that
> representing
> the report layout in XML make the size of report grow very fast and hurt
> the
> performance significantly.
> I am currently working on a project with complicated reports. When the
> report size grow to several MB, editing the report costs a lot of time.
> Does anyone have similar experience? And is this essential to represent
> the
> report layout in XML rather than binary? If the report is in binary and
> can
> be exported to XML, would it be better?
>