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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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