What's XML's Purpose??
| From: | Chris Anderson | Date: | Sat, 14 Apr 2001 04:01:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | What's XML's Purpose?? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Alright I'll start this out by saying I have a subscription to "Visual Basic Programmers
Journal". Before I converted and realized that I loved PHP so much I used ASP. Well it seems
that in this magazine that XML is a hot topic in the MS world. I know XML can be used by PHP, but is
there a point? I only know 2 things about it:
1) You can make your own tags:
<mytag> </mytag>
2) It's supposedly good for databasing?
If its for databasing, why not just use MySQL( or a variation). Am I missing something here?