Re: What's your call on XML?

You're right, XML needs more space than plain data and it's not usefull to store whole databases in XML files. But if you need to exchange datas between several applications then will XML be the right choice. And your second point about something that will possible not be solveable with simple tables, well you can solve everything with tables,but how ugly will be such datas, solved in Databases: <tree> <child> <child> <child> <child>data</child> </child> </child> </child> </tree> okay, this a very simple part, but it should shown that SQL servers are not build to store object oriented datas. And the future will bring more OO datas. Btw word processing documents and HTML files are also OO oriented. Try to store these in databases (not the whole file in one BLOB!!) Thomas From: Sebastian Stadtlich <Stadtlich@mediaworx.com> Forget about XML... it sucks... right now i can't imagine one Projekt on this earth that would need XML. don't ever think about replacing your database with XML-Files. one thing that XML clains to be perfect in is in exchanging data files... what's wrong with a SQL-Dump or a textfile which structure you know? ( basically that is what XML is all about).. Sebastian p.s: if i'm wrong please someone point me to a projekt that was done in XML and could not be done significantly faster with a Database......