XML parsing and loading the server

[karlovac]

I am building template-based pages, and am creating a script to handle the templates.

I've come up with an idea to use a simple XML spec to lay out the directory structure:-

<section title="Company" url="./">
<page title="Team" url="team.php"/>
<page title="Directors" url="board.php"/>
... more "page" tags, incl. nested ones
</section>

The XML files are small - around 530 bytes (0.5kb) each, and loaded once every time a page is loaded.

The PHP script reads/parses the XML file and creates a navigation bar from it for each page.

I have no idea how much this loads the server:-

-Does parsing XML load the server a lot?
-Would I be better off figuring out some system of arrays, and looping through them.

Thanks,

Antun

[Anon]

XML parsing is the way to go. One of the reasons XML was developed was for multiple preferences on the same page.

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