Uche Ogbuji comments on ways to deal with potential XML problems. "The most common effect of this lack of attentiveness often leads people to very dangerous practices such as acting as if XML is an ASCII or even byte-oriented format. I have warned sharply about the ugly effects of such confusion in a few previous articles in this column. Another common effect I've seen is the tendency to create multi-megabyte or even gigabyte monolithic XML files. XML is so flexible for data representation because of its nature as an annotated hierarchy. But this very nature also makes efficient processing quite difficult, especially with regards to scaling according to number of nodes."

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