RE: XML
| From: | Ed Carp | Date: | Thu, 27 Jun 2002 23:10:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: XML | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.db |
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> I am looking at a project using XML to import and export data into MySql
> directly or using php. The datasets are quite large (40-50 million records)
XML is a metadata technology - you wrap data in XML. You don't use XML to import or export
data. You don't store XML in a
database, you store data.
When you fetch the data from the database, you wrap it in XML and send it on its way. Does that
make it simpler?
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