|-----Original Message----- |From: Petre Agenbag [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 6:27 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [PHP] XML | | |Hi List | |Firstly, this question is arguable more about XML than PHP, but they are |interlinked, so I hope it is "topical" for this list. | |Firstly, Where I come from: | |I am VERY comfortable with PHP/MySQL on Linux and understand all those |concepts. | |Now I'm trying to see the benefits of XML, and quite frankly, I just |cannot see why one would want to use it... | [snip]
On Jul 8, 2003, "Joe Harman" claimed that: |Okay Petre... You have asked the question that I always wanted to ask!!! |I can't wait to see peoples answer... I simply can't find a use for it |either.... | |Joe This probably should be on another list, but it might give someone an idea on how to create something in PHP. I've been trying to figure out if some of what I'm doing would be good for XML. The answer for that is "no, use a database." It seems to me, that XML is a way of encoding data for the transmission between two processors. For example, the database uses XML to transfer data to the PHP engine. The weather magnet uses XML to transmit information to your PHP script, which parses it and produces the HTML output. My page asks your script for some information, and it's returned as well-formed XML. As far as using an XML file to act as a database and your parser to create the HTML, it's probably better to use a database. Jeff (my $.015 [after taxes] ) -- Registered Linux user #304026. "lynx -source http://jharris.rallycentral.us/jharris.asc | gpg --import" Key fingerprint = 52FC 20BD 025A 8C13 5FC6 68C6 9CF9 46C2 B089 0FED Responses to this message should conform to RFC 1855. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php