Hi All

VS 2005 SP1 (C#, VB.NET)

I need the absolut fastest way of loading an xml-file of about 700KB into an
array.

I need to load about 1500 of those xml-Files into arrays on startup of my
application.
Therefore it needs to be as fast as possible.
Please also tell me if the xml structure can be improved.

the xml looks like:
y: Year
m: Month
h: Hour
value

<data>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="1">0.227777109151971</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="2">0.206573903224972</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="3">0.165140219440699</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="4">0.124293431158821</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="5">0.104002798378086</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="6">0.0812389501473294</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="7">0.0136806566150509</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="8">0.0607339108863059</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="9">0.111394621283997</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="10">0.168801709563907</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="11">0.0865607844888258</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="12">0.101389182210782</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="13">0.204044532248796</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="14">0.157314882488258</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="15">0.121055145349667</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="16">0.102359195578094</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="17">0.0199985034684297</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="18">0.107776377100517</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="19">0.140707273209167</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="20">0.116934362505389</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="21">0.181578399407852</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="22">0.162783178544661</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="23">0.248914944436437</v>
 <v y="1998" m="1" h="24">0.201314812545552</v>
 <v y="1998" m="2" h="1">0.169468199288149</v>
...
 <v y="2050" m="12" h="24">-0.930491278500616</v>
</data>

Thanks for your help

jahrens