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>>The primary answer I give this question is flexibility, though there is a >>significant cost in efficiency. XML documents can easily hold structures >>that make relational databases choke. . . . > >I would love to see an example of this. > Me too, Paul. Let's not think of XML as a representation for a complex multi-table multi-user shared database. DOM, as a database, is like a RAM-resident single user IMS/DB. (If you must barf, don't barf on your keyboard.) There is a reason why we fled from hierarchical linked databases to relational. Yes, there are databases you can do in XML that you can't do in relational. Just as there are things you can do in assembler language you can't do in Java. But if you are trying to do something useful with large, complex data, stick with relational. XML seems a good match for small but flexible structures on web-connected clients. David's comments, saying XML is for information exchange and relational is for storage/query, rings true... 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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