[thelist] xml is good for...?

Ken Schaefer Ken at adOpenStatic.com
Tue Oct 25 18:33:14 CDT 2005



> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-
> bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Kasimir K
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> 
> 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.

I agree with Kasimir. Additionally some DBMSes will generate XML from your
data on-the-fly (e.g. SQL Server's FOR XML AUTO clause)

Cheers
Ken



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