what is the power of XML?

hî i m new to XML, hope u can help me with my question.
-What is the power of XML?

-Is everything possinle with XML ? with out using a database

-one of my client need an ecommerce webisite with out using any database? is this possible?


-what the plus and minus points of using XML instead of any database?


if u have any other informations about it post them too..

if u know any tutorials about XML, please post them too

many many thanks in advance
-stagy

XML tutorial
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp
XSL Tutorial
http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/default.asp

Read also:
XML
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
XSL
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/

Oh, and I'm a newcomer, but I'd say this topic has been discussed here before?

<http://forums.devshed.com/showthrea...&threadid=23395>

thanks for the reply,,,
well, next question:
<b>how do i use HTML / PHP with XML?</b>
let say i have a page with this XML tags.

when i call this document on my browser
i got this:<hr>
Action Hugh Jackman Patrick Stewart Ian McKellen Famke Janssen <hr>
let say i have a select box i need to import the select box options from a XML file? how do i do that?
[code]
<select box name=persons>
<options> how do i call persons list from the XML file</option>
</select>





many thanks for ur helps.
-stagy

That's a bit more trickier. I'm also quite new with this, but I use ASP with XML and so I can't help you with this one

Have you had a read of the tutorials on Devshed at all, they are how I learnt about all this.

XML Basics (part 1)
XML Basics (part 2)
Using PHP with XML part 1
Using PHP with XML part 2
Building XML Trees with PHP

After reading the first 4 I built a PHP web app using XSLT (I read those tutorials too), DOM XML and PHP. The app can be seen with some sample data at http://www.wabusinessnews.com.au/bol/

Edit: you can see the raw XML data used at http://www.wabusinessnews.com.au/bol/bol.xml and the XSLT file at http://www.wabusinessnews.com.au/bol/bol.xsl