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   Re: What is XML for?

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  • From: Dave Winer <dave@userland.com>
  • To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:10:16 -0800

>>Perhaps not the primary storage medium, but certainly as the backup medium.

Exactly right. 

We have our content management system archive every change and every new
message to a folder containing XML files as backup against a crash of the
odb and to allow easy synchronization with other databases that understand
XML.

This is a totally appropriate use of XML.

Dave


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