Hi
I am planning to set up a search facility on my site which queries a datastore - all very simple stuff, however I wondered the advantages/disadvantages of storing this data as XMl rather then in a mysql database.
The datastore could have a couple of thousand entries and this search facility may be rolled out over other sites hence why I am thinking about using xml.
However my knowlege of this is quite miniaml, I just wondered if anyone has any thoughts and any good sites where I could read up on this subject.
Thanks in advance
XML versus mysql
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Re: XML versus mysql
Go MySQL - XML is a headache.
Re: XML versus mysql
No comparison. MySQL is a database & as such was built to retrieve data easily and powerfully.
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.