I'm wanting to get some practice with perl/XML/XSL so I'm writing a journal program for myself. I once wrote a journal program with each entry stored in a txt file with the date as the file's name. It worked just fine, but I'd like to implement some other technologies for the sake of gaining experience and practice.

As I contemplate how to store my data in this new project I ask you, my monk friends, what is the most efficent way to store theses journal entries in XML files? I don't expect each entry to be that long, 10k tops. The truth be told I'm really only using perl to combine the XML with the XSL, but I'm courious as to what your thoughts are as how to store my XML data.

Thanks,
  silent11

In reply to XML and file size by silent11

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