rybo (2/2/2015)
Jeff Moden (2/1/2015)
rybo (2/1/2015)
Per the agency’s specification document,Can you, by any chance, provide a link to that spec? I'd like to cite it for something else I'm doing.
Sure, it can be found on this page: https://www.frbservices.org/centralbank/reportingcentral/reportingcentral_userguides.html
Here is the direct link to this document:
https://www.frbservices.org/files/reporting/pdf/benchmark_series_xml_file_format.pdf
Outstanding! You've just made my day!
Shifting gears a bit and with no reflection on you (I'm just venting and want you to be sure that you know I'm not throwing rocks at you :-)), it's just absolutely amazing to me that they decided to convert a rather simple CSV where two rows take 40 characters and change it to one of the worst tag bloated XML monsters of 1560 characters (2 bytes per character in XML) for the same thing. It's no wonder that people complain about performance on such things.
It also is an indication why people have to worry about "big data" when they blow out such simple data by a factor of 38 times (that's 3,800%!!! bigger). What a sickening waste of bandwidth, storage, and cpu time.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.