Re: Is there an XMLDataAdapter?

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Bill,

Most I agree with you so there is not much to write about. I expressly wrote
what I wrote and nothing more about databases.

The OP has said very clear that he don't want a database. So I tried to show
him the counterpart of that. I had in past the same idea as him, and when
using it showed me that it was a very limited approach and even dangerous
because that you can not set it in a save area (what is the same with by
instance access and excel)

A little thing, Excel can AFAIK be used as a (limited) multiuser database.
The reason that it cannot with XML files is that an XML file is nothing more
than a what I call flat textfile as a CSV file is too. In databases you can
change parts of the data withouth reading and writing the complete file,
databases are not *just* files, it are a special kind of files which have
another kind of access.

You would have seen in past in a lot of messages from me, that I forever
tell that XML datasets can be a very good replacements for a lot of
situations expressely for by instance saving settings or by instance the
base for the use of different languages. However those are limited in their
use at the start and end of a program and/or bound to one user.

There will be now never more one thought that I will use any XML file as a
real database. I still find the Access Database the first replacement for
that (with all its bad counterparts).

Cor






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