I spend the majority of my time working with VFP and local tables. Some time is spent with different backends and also different development tools, but as a whole, I work primarily with VFP. Having said that, the advent of xml was almost as great as sliced bread. We transfer information in xml format between many systems and across the web on a daily basis for hundreds of users. The data is stored in our VFP tables or SQL but it is passed in xml format in most cases. Just a few benefits of xml:

-platform/software independent
-rapidly adopted industrywide
-ability to embed different data types
-separates the content from the presentation
-self-described
-easy to read and understand
-extensible
-supports multilingual documents as well as Unicode
-fielded text
-standardization


>>Hi, Denis.
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>>>I don't have (VFP) speed when I search Within XML.
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>>Oh, I wasn't trying to compare DBF and XML from a feature perspective. For me are two completely unrelated technologies. DBF are a storage thing while XML is mostly a transport mechanism.
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>I completely agree with you. But it's frequent to see many to talk like XML was the best thing since sliced bread.
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>>I just figured out that this was where Kevin was headed, but I should have let him answer, of course. It was speculation. My intervention were about the standards issue.
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>I guess we'll never know now because of your fast intervention. At worst you probably influenced a probable reply from Kevin.
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>Are you proud of yourself Martin :-D