If you just tack one XML file onto the end of another you will have
malformed XML. This is because every properly formed XML document must have
a single tag (often called the root or document tag) that wraps the entire
document. For example:

<a>
  <b></b>
</a>

Is valid, but:

<a>
  <b></b>
</a>
<a>
  <b></b>
</a>

Is malformed.

~ Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Harold Hallikainen
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 11:26 AM
To: Pic List
Subject: [OT] XML database?

I have a bunch of pic32 systems posting xml to a server. I could have the
server parse the xml and save the data in mysql. Another possibility would
be to just append new xml to the old in a text file, then access the data i=
n
that file to generate reports. I like the simplicity of just saving the xml=
..
I'd like to hear comments on this and suggested xml database engines to
search the data. This is running on a centos system.

Thanks!

Harold


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