Re: XML + PHP

At 07:54 PM 3/14/01 +0000, David Meadows wrote:
> > Now, eventually, XML /will/ be my database? I won't need to store stuff in
> > a db and then query it since the XML DTD will pre-define the markup so if
>I
> > want to find all the headlines, I'll just query the XML for tags that have
> > headline?
>
>This kind of statement has always bothered me. A lot of people seem to be
>thinking of XML as a database. How can this be?
>
>If an XML file is a database, it's a very poor one.

I would think so too, but that's what I've been reading. I'm not about to 
give up on PHP/MySQL, but it is a little frustrating to have the short 
tag/parse error problem.

~Tamara

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