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Ljubljana, Slovenia     0 Post(s)     0 Thread(s)      Why use
database AND XML      Can someone please explain to me what is
the benefit of using database (like MySQL) with XML documents.
It is not clear to me why would it be cool to store XML tagged
content into database.      Inspiration for this question was
Kevin Yanks article Get XSL To Do Your Dirty Work. If you look
at Figure 8 you can see how it should be done. But this seems
illogical. You either use XML or database. Or am I wrong here?
Please list benefits of doing that and drawbacks too. Thanks
P.S.: It's a great article though, Kevin.    2. #2     Your Lord
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Aug 1999     Lancaster, Ca. USA     1 Post(s)     0 Thread(s)
Personally, I wouldn't store XML encoded documents in the
database unless the encoding was for display purposes (i.e.
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