Hi all,

We have a successful application. Let us call it an applet that consumes both:
- free and fee-based XML content (in nicely formatted XML trees),
- local tabular input by the user.

The local input is fed by the user from XLS tabular data or alternatively from raw CSV data. We wish to offer a local SAVE-AS option for the "massaged" local data.

Of course the intention is to save as XML formatted data. But we have an isssue here!

Saving big data sets (they happen to be for some customers) is tedious. Loading them back is CPU-costly and slow. What about saving data directly as CSV within an embedded CDATA section.

In the end we would have an XML document with:
- all structural meta data in a nicely formatted XML header,
- the CSV data in a blob with a CDATA section for performance and safety.

Is it an acceptable frame of work? Possibly a beaten-to-death issue but we welcome any feedback!

Francois