PHP and XML

[d-machine]

Hi

What are the advantages of working with XML and not with regular databases?

I'm a bit new to it and I consider learning it..

[Jesdisciple]

Any programming language can read XML without a middleman. A database must be read by SQL and a server language (e.g. PHP), which can be acting as a middleman for JavaScript. XML is also more flexible than a database, but (I believe) at the expense of efficiency.

In an old project of mine which I still intend to finish, I need the app's configuration data available to all the arms. As I recall, it has 3 arms: JavaScript; the server language; and the server's operating system. I decided to use XML to keep track of the configuration, even though the app's ultimate data is stored in a database.

[d-machine]

thank you

[dicegame]

I use XML so that multiple languages can access the data quickly - which is why it was created.

Jesdisciple's explanation was great.

[codeexploiter]

What about JSON which is lighter than XML?