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Pavel Velikhov wrote: > > Paul Prescod wrote: > > > > You need to store data that is efficiently maintained relationally. You > > need to *transmit* XML. Why not use a relational database and create XML > > when you need it. > > > > Transmitting XML in a textual representation is not always a good idea. I don't follow you. XML is, by definition, textual. > When the user does the 'select *' query on an XML database, sending him > a 20 megabyte XML file that he will need to parse, apply an xsl > stylesheet > to and display in the browser is not the best solution. IMHO, the result > of the query should be shipped on demand, when the user is actually > 'looking' > at a piece of an XML file. I don't think I said anything to contradict this, though I would say that by the time you have a "20 megabyte XML file" you've probably already done something wrong. There is almost never a good reason to generate files that large. Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco Don't you know that the smart bombs are so clever, they only kill bad people." - http://www.boingo.com/lyrics/WarAgain.html xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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