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Why Isn XML Returned By the RefreshData Method Instead of This Array?

April 26, 2017array method refreshdata RETURNED XML

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Why Isn XML Returned By the RefreshData Method Instead of This Array?

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Efficiency. Since the RTD server and Excel are communicating directly with one another, there is no need for the overhead of constructing and parsing the XML. It is much more efficient to just pass the array of topic IDs and values to Excel.