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XML only for data exchange ?
- To: ozone-users@ozone-db.org
- Subject: XML only for data exchange ?
- From: Gerd Mueller <gerd@smb-tec.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:01:43 +0100
- Delivered-To: softw7-ozone-db:org-ozone-users@ozone-db.org
- Organization: SMB
Hi,
Some of you wrote that XML is only an exchange format but not a storage
format. Why ? E.g. if I would develop an article database for a newspaper
or library software to store the whole work of Shakespeare, why not using
XML as data format ? I think we all agree that plain files are not suitable
here. Should I use an RDBMS ? I doubt. What left IMHO is an XML database.
Or if I think of the Infozone-project: It is absolutely necessary to have
an XML database there.
Finally it depends on the application. I don't agree with the general
statement "XML is not a storage format".
Best Regards,
Gerd
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Gerd Mueller gerd@smb-tec.com
SMB GmbH http://www.smb-tec.com