On Dec 6, 3:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you're happy going with sqlite then stick with it. If on the other > hand you were considering XML because you're more comfortable with > that (e.g. you find XML easy to work with and you're more familiar > with XPath/XQuery than SQL) then you could use XML if you wanted. The > choice is not between XML and databases, it's between XML and > relational. There are -- shock-horror! -- full-featured XML databases > too (e.g. Berkeley DB XML, which is lightweight, fast, embeddable and > open source like sqlite, with indexing, transactions etc. if you need > that).
Tim? Ah, now you're making it hard for me to decide again. :-) Talking about comfortable, I do like Amara XML toolkit a lot. But I'll stick with sqlite in this case. Thanks for your valuable input and for mentioning Berkeley DB XML. I didn't know about it and will have to read about it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list