XML processing

[jackvull]

I have to process XML documents on my server on a regular basis.
The is a lot of information in these files so out of interest, do you think it would be easier to transform them (XSLT) to say a text file and then input that into my database or just do it directly from PHP code?

[coopster]

Parsing the data to push into a text file is the same process as parsing for a database table. If it is ultimately going to end up in the database table then I don't see any need to place overhead in the process. Plus, writing to and from your HDD is only going to create fragmentation. INSERT directly to the database I say.