xml-dev - resources about data repositories

[Bernard Achermann <bernard.achermann@swissonline.ch>]

hello

i have absolutely no experience with xml so far, therefore my - maybe
dumb - question: are there any pointers / informations about building
data repositories with xml? the data sources may be of various types
like data bases, flat files or even plain text. as far as i understand
the concepts of xml it should provide a good way to establish data
interchange between different systems providing a consistent format of
the data, true? are there already some tools around? or standards?

thanks for any input!

regards

	bernard

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