[thelist] xml is good for...?

Kasimir K evolt at kasimir-k.fi
Tue Oct 25 05:59:43 CDT 2005


Andreas Wahlin scribeva in 2005-10-25 10:00:
> Or just store and read the XML files from the server. No database  
> needed, although searching and probably fetching would of course take  
> a performance hit!

Yes, this is a good option especially if the number of items to store is 
fairly low. You could easily edit by hand a XML file of 50 recipes. But 
if you have 20 000 of them, you'll want them in well normalized db tables.

.k



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