Posted by ImOk on 12/17/93 11:53

Agreed,

But I believe there are database engines whose natural format is XML..
It's probably fixed length.

Chung Leong wrote:
> ImOk wrote:
> > My suggestion is to use XML. PHP and Javascript has the Dom class that
> > supports this format very well. Its also easily extensible. And best of
> > all it's a text file.
>
> XML and any text format is very inefficiency when updates/deletions are
> frequent, as you have to rewrite the file everytime. For a mailbox,
> that's unacceptable since the file size will likely be fairly large. A
> suitable format requires a directory of sort storing the offsets of
> records, so you can quicly seek to the them and modify them in place.
> Whatever you come up with it'll end up resembling a database. So why
> not just use what's there already?

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