A real nice use of XML is:
1. A new format for external tables, since this feature is limited to fixed-length files. A lot of
utilities can extract data to xml and would be nice to import these xmldocs directly to a table
representation (and normalize it like a table).

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:03:00 -0400, Jim Starkey wrote:

>At 02:53 PM 4/16/03 -0400, Paul Schmidt wrote:
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>>That's what Firebird does, it stores data. XML can be, and should be limited
>>to being either a source for data, or a destination for extracted data, in
>>other words your populating an XML document with database data. So the
>>question becomes should that be done within the engine, or within the client,
>>and is the benefit of doing it within the engine worth the cost of doing so.
>
>
>Well said, sir. That is indeed the question.
>
>Jim Starkey
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