Hi sskohli,

My opinion is as bad as anyother, and probably worst than most, but I think that XML is a good thing when you need to transfer data between automatic systems, or if you need a structured configuration system.

When your needs are storing huge amounts of data, and specially if you need to perform complex filtering and lookups in that data, XML is not the ideal way.

I don't see, in true, any advantage in using XML in case.

It'll be unmanagable to create the XML directly, so you need an interface to insert your data in the XML. Reading data from the XML will allways force you to read the XML file completly. Processing XML is a complex task, and a database, with a correctly defined structure and indexes will the do job with much more eficience.

Just my 2 cents,