Re: PHP and XML?

Krznaric Michael wrote: > The author recalls the way they use to get data out of a database > before SQL came along. I'm too young but I can only imagine it was a pain. > [snip! 8< ] I think you exlained the whole point of XML very well. Like SQL and RDBMS, XML provides a higher level framework for dealing with data and documents. Also like SQL, XML is popular also just because it is popular. The more people who support it, the more useful it is. > So, in conclusion, XML by itself seems to be pretty useless to me. > Just as a set of database tables would be without SQL. Well yes. Storing data is not a problem. It's being able to do things to it that is the real trick. -- Simon Edwards Animated Design, Melbourne http://www.animated.net.au/ Ph: (03) 98850990