From: Daniel Fagerstrom > Brian McCallister wrote: > > > it seems to me the embedded Xindice option should work pretty > > painlessly for most simple persistence needs. If it is hard to use, > > the better option may be to look at how to make it easier > to use. If > > an XML -> rdmbs automapper and schema generator is needed > it seems a > > lot like reinventing a new backend for an xml database. > > > > -Brian > > I agree, for many persistance needs an XML db, or even > storing XML files > in the file system is the best alternative. > > For the projects I work in however, and I think this > situation is rather > common, we already have a lot of customer data from other > data sources > in a relational data base. And we need to combine this data with user > input data in different ways. In this kind of context the > easiest way is > to store the user input in the db as well and using SQL to > combine data.
Yes, I agree with this. And many companies only have one database system and all applications *have to* use it as backend layer. -- Reinhard
