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>>XML opens the doors to a lot of possibilities for more sophisticated storage (in object stores, for instance) than the simple crappy file systems we all know and hate. We have one of those object storage systems. I agree that it's far more powerful a way to program than storing data in individual files, and can do lots of things that would be very awkward or inefficient in an RDBMS (like hierarchic content management). However, no matter how much work we put into a procedural XML-based programming interface, it's still more efficient and easier to work with the data using the native programming interface. After a year of working with XML as a database storage environment, we now have gravitated to using it as an interchange format. It's just too inefficient to use it any other way. To do it procedurally would be just so we could say "we're cool because we do everything in XML." Coolness just isn't that important. BTW, I support Simon's effort to keep the whining grandmas at bay (with apologies to grandmas). The sky isn't falling. Don't worry be happy. Dave 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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