Re: DATA Mining
Date: September 11, 2014 06:06AM
Hi,
I think that it depends on the data mining tool or algorithm implementation that you will use to perform the data mining.
If the data mining tool can read XML, then it may be ok. But most likely, you may need to convert it to some other format before applying a data mining tool.
Also, in general when you perform data mining, not all information is relevant. For example, if you have an XML file about students, some information about the students may not be relevant for your data mining task. So at the same time as you are converting to the proper format, you may also filter some irelevant information.
If you are writing your own data mining algorithm, then you may design some code to read your XML file directly without converting it.
If you want to convert your file, you can write some code that read the xml file line by line and output line by line in an output file. Thus, you probably don't need to read the file completely into memory.
Hope this helps,