# Txt Vs XML

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/txt-vs-xml/43095>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 18, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/txt-vs-xml/43095 "2004-02-18T20:12:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![foochuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@foochuck](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/foochuck)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/txt-vs-xml/43095/1 "2004-02-18T20:12:23Z")

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Hello,

I’m wondering what the benefits of loading text data versus xml data into Flash are? Is there a huge speed difference between the two? For example say I’m loading the same amount of data from a text file and an xml file - which would be faster?

Any other benefits or disadvantages between the 2?

Thanks

:mario: