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tblanchard@mac.com wrote:
> If XML is an "interchange" format - then why am I storing it? Why don't
> I convert it to my format (which I designed because it is convenient
> where the XML "interchange" format is not). Does this even make sense?
> I don't think it does.
XML is not always an interchange format. Sometimes there is no benefit
in defining a local view of the data. If the public view happens to be
convenient enough, why transform to a local view merely for purity of
architecture? In particular, in the document world, XML is a convenient
repository format. It is useful to be able to query those documents in
terms of their XML hierarchy.
I would agree that it very rarely makes sense to _replace_ SQL databases
with XML databases. (though there will probably be some XML database
vendors who will disagree)
Paul Prescod
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