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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	patric design: I did throw some ideas about this around a few years ago but I agree with InI on this. Using an XML file as your DB relies on the browser not just being XML enabled but capable of processing XSL, XSLT, etc. and that really restricts what you can do (unless you do the processing server-side and I suspect you'd be better off using a DB anyway). It'll also be slower than using a DB. If you want to also produce PDFs then I'd still recommend you store things in a DB and dynamically using server-side scripting - see: [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/815/]http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/815/[/url] XML is just another weapon in your arsenal and should be deployed where the circumstances require it and I don't think using it as a DB is a good use of XML ;) ~glances at post count and wanders off to mind a [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum17/HTML/000555.html]party[/url]~ ___________________ Emps FAQs: [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/53/]Emperor[/url] Loading...
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