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Originally Posted by Nibbles
As for redundant data, you could figure out which teams are in each event by scanning each child <alliance> tag, but that is harder to do. It also makes semantic sense, a team element under an event tag means the team was part of that event, the same way it does for the alliance tag. Similar thinking was behind adding the score="" attribute to the alliance tag, it is redundant, but it simplifies it down, and it allows you to not know each component, and have only the score. |
You should figure out is this raw data or is this processed data. If it is raw data then out with the dup, the processing to regenerate that is tiny, raw data is just that raw. If it is not then there really is no reason to not break it into other file. Just as in a database there are multiple tables.
That brings back to the question why not just make the raw SQL database readable to the world then we can make queries off of it. XML just is not a database replacement when you have relational data, which is why there is dups.