Reading XML file

NETMF & Gadgeteer
1

I am using a Cobra board.
I have stored a XML file(size of 10kb) on my SD-Card. I have used that example
( http://wiki.tinyclr.com/index.php?title=XML ).
I am wondering how long it takes( about 1,5 sec) just to initialize/ mount my SD-Card.
Even the parse of XML take about 2,5 second.
Is there any other way to parse a XML file in a quicker way?

2

Are you parsing it off the SD card or reading in memory and then parsing in memory?

3

Here is an extraction of my code.
I am adding the XML file into an array and then store it in a memorystream and parse it to the XMLReader.


      _storage = new PersistentStorage( "SD" );
      _storage.MountFileSystem();

      string rootDirectory = VolumeInfo.GetVolumes()[0].RootDirectory;
      filestream = new FileStream( rootDirectory + @ "\test.xml",
                                     FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read );
                
      xmlArray = new Byte[filestream.Length];

      filestream.Read( xmlArray, 0, (int)filestream.Length );
      
      XmlReaderSettings ss = new XmlReaderSettings();
      ss.IgnoreWhitespace = true;
      ss.IgnoreComments = false;

      filestream.Read( xmlBytes, 0, (int)filelength );
      filestream.Close();
         
      
      MemoryStream xmlStream = new MemoryStream( xmlArray );

      XmlReader xmlr = XmlReader.Create( filestream); 
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4

I am not sure exactly. I did XML parsing before and wasn’t seconds. Maybe the files were smaller than yours.

5

Here is mine:

FileStream fs = new FileStream("\\SD\\yourfile.xml",FileMode.Open,FileAccess.Read,FileShare.None);
            XmlReaderSettings ss = new XmlReaderSettings();
            ss.IgnoreComments = false;
            ss.IgnoreWhitespace = true;
            XmlReader xmlr = XmlReader.Create(fs,ss);

then you just have to parse as described in the tutorial (xmlr.EOF, xmlr.Read, node type …

I don’t know why do you need xmlarray and why you start reading file… So I don’t have any clue if my code will be faster than yours but for sure, it is smaller…

6

So I adjusted my code with the purpose from leforban.
It got a bit quicker, but it still does not reach the desired speed. Is it normal that the mounting of the SD-Card takes about 1,5 sec? The SD-Card has a size of 2GB and is formated as FAT32. Is another file type recommended?

7

How much faster you need it to be? Maybe faster device is the only option. ChipworkX and Hydra give you 5 to 6 times the speed.