Abdullah Alger wrote:
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I have a couple of questions about XML. Actually, I am not sure if XML is the right programming language to use.
I have a database ready to go, but I would like to put it on the web for people to use. I was thinking about linking the db to an xml file then creating an html page that will pull the information from the xml file. But something tells me that this is not the simplest way to do things.
Although it isn't really what you might be looking for, since you already have a database, but you may wish to look at eXist. It is a free, opensource, native XML database. This would be a database way of working with XML texts that is designed for just that purpose. One of the many ways to query such databases is with XQuery (W3C XML Query), which is kind of like SQL by for XML Databases.
See: http://www.exist-db.org/ for more information.
-James