IS DHTMLXGrid Without XML works?

we r not using xml to populate the data into grid as We find xml method little bit difficult to do that.
 Instead of that we use setValue to set data into cell. Is it become a problem in long run ?

Loading through XML stream ( file or string ) is fastest approach. Any other methods are significantly  slower.
While populating grid by “setValue” will not cause any problems with other functionality,  it can be too slow for big datasets.