Of things data and XML...

Recently, Scott Cate and I began architecting enhancements to kbAlertz and other sites.  I can see so much potential for XML technologies in every layer of the application.  I am looking forward to the new XML features in SQL Server 2005, such as the XML data type mentioned in Dare’s recent blog.

I’m curious to know how many developers out there factor XML in each layer of the application, and if there are “interesting” implementations of the various XML technologies.  Any cool war stories?

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  • Over a year ago there was a time when I used IE xml databinding to quickly bind client-side tables to an xml data source. This led to too much script being required, so it became cumbersome. At the same time I was passing xml to sprocs as well as receiving it (FOR XML AUTO). This led to too much xml. I was using xml just because it was new and cool, and it led to bloated messages between the database and application. Now I only use xml when it makes sense. For instance, I've recently had a need to store config information. I chose to store the info in a file instead of a database for simplicity and the fact that it would not be updated very often. I used xml for that, but I used a dataset to suck it in easily.

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