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Paul Prescod wrote: > > You need to store data that is efficiently maintained relationally. You > need to *transmit* XML. Why not use a relational database and create XML > when you need it. > Transmitting XML in a textual representation is not always a good idea. When the user does the 'select *' query on an XML database, sending him a 20 megabyte XML file that he will need to parse, apply an xsl stylesheet to and display in the browser is not the best solution. IMHO, the result of the query should be shipped on demand, when the user is actually 'looking' at a piece of an XML file. Pavel Velikhov xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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