Re: sqlite or xml

2007-12-07 Thread oj
On Dec 6, 8:21 pm, Kelie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello group, > > If I need store and use a couple thousand of people's contact info: > first name, last name, phone, fax, email, address, etc. I'm thinking > of using either sqlite or xml. Which one is better? My

Re: sqlite or xml

2007-12-07 Thread Paul Boddie
On 7 Des, 09:31, Kelie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. As a user of unfashionable XML technologies *and* relational database systems,

Re: sqlite or xml

2007-12-07 Thread Kelie
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

Re: sqlite or xml

2007-12-06 Thread tinkerbarbet
On Dec 7, 12:34 am, Kelie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Chris, Tim and Yu-Xi. I'll follow your advice and use database. Hi Kelie 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

Re: sqlite or xml

2007-12-06 Thread Kelie
Thanks Chris, Tim and Yu-Xi. I'll follow your advice and use database. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sqlite or xml

2007-12-06 Thread Yu-Xi Lim
Tim Chase wrote: >> how much data is considered to be "large amount"? > > one record > > Unless you really need XML to communicate with some other app via a > predetermined schema, use a database to store and retrieve data. If you > only need to send data to another app via a predetermined sch

Re: sqlite or xml

2007-12-06 Thread Yu-Xi Lim
Tim Chase wrote: >> how much data is considered to be "large amount"? > > one record > > Unless you really need XML to communicate with some other app via a > predetermined schema, use a database to store and retrieve data. If you > only need to send data to another app via a predetermined sch

Re: sqlite or xml

2007-12-06 Thread Tim Chase
> how much data is considered to be "large amount"? one record Unless you really need XML to communicate with some other app via a predetermined schema, use a database to store and retrieve data. If you only need to send data to another app via a predetermined schema, use a database and then

Re: sqlite or xml

2007-12-06 Thread Chris
On Dec 6, 10:21 pm, Kelie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello group, > > If I need store and use a couple thousand of people's contact info: > first name, last name, phone, fax, email, address, etc. I'm thinking > of using either sqlite or xml. Which one is better? My

sqlite or xml

2007-12-06 Thread Kelie
Hello group, If I need store and use a couple thousand of people's contact info: first name, last name, phone, fax, email, address, etc. I'm thinking of using either sqlite or xml. Which one is better? My understanding is if there is large amount of data, sqlite would be better as far a