Re: What is the logic of storing XML in a Database?

I'm sure there are many people who have been through the same experience as myself using xml as a transport format:

1. Observe the popularity of XML and the supporting libraries in the language you are working in.
2. Implement a transport layer using XML to parse messages/data etc.
3. Realise that your server/application is now over ten times slower than it was before.
4. Remove XML and replace with something far simpler, far less verbose and vitally far /quicker to parse/.
5. Curse XML for wasting your bloody time and never let it darken your door again.