Re: XML and the Datagrid

From: Cor (non_at_non.com)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 23:48:23 +0100

Hi Solex,

I think I have had a time the same idea about XML as you.

However, it is to use as database nothing more than a very efficient text
file.
I find it, when it is in memory, exactly as good as the database, because it
uses the same procedures. In addition, when you do not use it as dataset,
you can even do more.

I wished that the complexity from an XML file was in a real database system.

The problem now is for me, that you cannot change items in an XML file while
it stays on disk. You have to read and write it streaming (although in one
time the whole file).

If you use it to get some data out the database, update it and write it back
as it is used now, it is in my opinion a good solution and also very good
usable in a web service where it is used as transport media for that data.

I can think on an option to make small XML files, which holds the data in
good organized small files as it done with some system information.

My problem is specially that when you are using it frequently and you have a
write error with a big XML file, while your recovery is not very well, you
are losing everything, you can make temporary files of course, but when you
use it very often, I think that will fail also.

It is in my opinion the best thing to describe and hold data until now and I
wished that the things I describe above were wrong. Than I get a total
different opinion about your question.

But just my thought about it today,

Cor

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