greetings and salutations fellow monks,

currently i am using mySQL and the perl DBI to pull links for my website's navigation menu, and also to pull news from a database.

i was thinking of using the DBI to XML and then reading the XML for the links and the news and if the links were updated, then i would recreate the XML links file, and if the news was updated, then i would recreate the news XML file.

do you fellows believe that the wesite would run more efficiently or faster if i were to use the XML, or just go straight from the database?

at first i thought that the XML would be faster because really, how often will links need to be changed? but the news on the other-hand, will be updated probably everyday, so i dont really know what i should do.

thanks for the help monks!

In reply to speed and efficiency XML/DBI vs DBI by primus

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