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Re: XML versus Relational Database

• From: Caroline Clewlow <cclewlow@e...>
• To: Dream Catcher <isc70409@l...>
• Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 09:10:45 +0000

Isn't the issue that XML is not designed as a mechansim to store data, but a
mechanism to allow data to be provided in a common format that can be
understood by disparate systems ?

( I know this is a criminally simplistic view of what XML is about but I
just wanted to make the point  :-)

Regards

Caroline

Dream Catcher wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  Although I am developing an application for securing XML data. This
> morning I woke up and came out a general question: Is it really a better
> idear to store data in XML structure instead of relational table? As we
> know to bulid a DOM tree is quite expensive for main memory...Any advice
> and opinion are cherished...:-)
>
>
> Best Regards
> Wang Yue
>
>     *------------------------------*
>       Attitude makes the difference
>     *------------------------------*

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