RE: XML

[Ed Carp]

> I am looking at a project using XML to import and export data into MySql
> directly or using php. The datasets are quite large (40-50 million records)

XML is a metadata technology - you wrap data in XML.  You don't use XML to import or
export data.  You don't store XML in a
database, you store data.

When you fetch the data from the database, you wrap it in XML and send it on its way. 
Does that make it simpler?

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