MAP filepath into memory

[wimvanherp]

I have an extern application that writes an xmlfile to a certain path on another computer. Because i want this xml be handled very fast i should want that this path is not a real path on an harddisk but a virtual path so that my application can handle the contents of this xml directly without having to scan a directory, read the file, process the file. I've tried pipe but for some reason the extern application doesn't feel to be able to write to a pipe. Are pipes the only solution to this problem and if yes, is a pipe-unc path considered as a normal file path, so it should work ?
p.s. i work in windows .

thanks


Wim Vanherp