Quoting Joseph Hall <[email protected]>: > Wade Preston Shearer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Wikipedia and Google have come up light on information about XML >> databases. What are the reasons that one would choose this approach? > > I've always seen XML as more of an interchange format. It can be handy > for swapping data between two applications that would otherwise use > dissimilar file formats.
I'd have to agree with this. One example that comes to mind is VOTable for Virtual Observatory so different Astronomy reduction programs can import / export data: http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaVOTable http://www.ivoa.net/ http://www.us-vo.org/ > A lot of apps use XML for their configs; I kind of prefer the $name = > value format, like Postfix uses. Indeed. I've had to support both OpenSSH and Tectia. OpenSSH is very easy to configure while Tectia (XML config file) is a bigger headache IMHO. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
