Not all
the time you will be using xml as a database. They may be situations
that might prompt you to do so. If you have a web application in which
you are using lots of xml documents to manage the content of your web
application and also the users and their permissions, then you might
very well consider the use of an xml database.
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Using
an xml database under such scenario would help you a lot in managing
your xml files and the data present in them.
There are
simple applications and products that use very less data required to
run the application. In such cases the use of xml as database is a wise
decision.
This helps
you to bundle the xml data too along with the application or the product.
In such cases you cannot use a full fledged relational database which
is difficult to bundle with the product or the application.
Distribution
of the application is a factor that also decides whether to go for an
xml document as a database or go for a full fledged database.
If you
have decided to use xml as a database then you will be using XQuery,
XPath, and XSLT in your application code to manage the xml data.
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