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----- Original Message ----- From: <fpgomez@r...> To: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 1:06 PM Subject: Application Design > Hi XML architects! > > Got a question for you. I have a need to design and develop a Document > Management system (documents include PDF files, Word documents, scanned > images etc...) to store and manage data in the range of 30-40 GB. The > application will be quite simple, have a couple of input screens to accept > the document key information along with provision to attach the document. A > search & results screen will also be required to perform searches on the > stored documents and to retrieve them. May be the central questions is: When is most appropriate using XML? If you have a substantial amount of scanned documents (i.e. tifs, gifs, etc) I think XML wont help in managing this objects. We have developed an application where the main elements of a document are stored in a DBMS by the originating person, whereas the document itself is zlib-compressed and stored apart. We have restrictions on the kind of documents involved and they are are tif´s and pdf´s mostly.
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