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Can you query the XML documents? If not -- for example, if they're
stored as BLOBs -- it seems this would make sense only if the only thing
you wanted to do with your accounting data is to ship it somewhere else.
Doesn't strike me as very likely...
-- Ron
David Lyon wrote:
> As someone with more ideas than resources, and more time than sense
> we built a shrinkwrapped accounting system based on xml.
>
> So what happens is that the user does their accounting as per normal except
> what happens is that the data goes into xml documents rather than the
> traditional rdbms that we all used to be writing ten or fifteen years ago.
>
> The xml documents then go into an sql database in a format similar to what we
> are used to in a traditional messaging system.
>
> Then the idea is, that the small business, has all these xml documents
> that are perfectly ready to send. Because they were created that way (in xml)
> in the first place.
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