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Nov 03.2006

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I have a question to make!!! Is any advantage to convert the DB data in xml to show in the main page formatted with PHP???

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@so_is_thisNov 03.2006 — It depends. More info!
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@Paulo_MonteiroauthorNov 03.2006 — Replace the above question for the next!! A relational database is a good choice to storing XML??
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@so_is_thisNov 03.2006 — I don't know that I'd store fully formed XML documents in a database. That would be a waste of space. I would unload the data from its XML structure and store just the data -- in a normalized format -- into a relational database. Such relational data can certainly then be extracted and formed into an XML document, again, for transmission purposes.
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@NogDogNov 03.2006 — I'll put it slightly differently:

A relational database is an excellent way to store data, making it easy and fast to retrieve, sort, and filter the data in many different ways.

XML can be a useful way to output data that you retrieve from a database in order to make that retrieved data portable and usable by any application or user agent which knows how to read and parse XML.
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@Paulo_MonteiroauthorNov 03.2006 — And what you think about native XML databases?? How much cost have one of this on a server???
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@so_is_thisNov 03.2006 — Keeping all of your data in an XML document for local reference purposes is like using a fork to eat soup -- certain tools are designed to perform certain functions better than other tools. A relational database is the best tool for local storage of data. XML documents are the best tool for porting that data between platforms.
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