Re: which is quicker? pseudo XML, or database?

Hello, On 06/14/2003 12:30 AM, Justin French wrote:

I'm looking at a site where there will be a lot of articles, all of which will be added once, and rarely edited again... Let's say each article consisted of 6 data types:

    - id
    - author
    - authorEmail
    - datePublished
    - introduction
    - bodyText

I'm considering: a) storing this data in a MySQL table (a fairly simple query) b) storing this data in a pseudo XML format like:

I think it is irrelevant as long as you do some content caching of the generated pages, for instance using a class like this that can cache arbitrary data in files for top speed: http://www.phpclasses.org/filecacheclass -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/