# How do I overcome XML files being cached?

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**Created:** [September 9, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-overcome-xml-files-being-cached/200194 "2006-09-09T21:51:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![OM2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ab097/32.png) [@OM2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/OM2)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-overcome-xml-files-being-cached/200194/1 "2006-09-09T21:51:49Z")

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I’ve developed a small application that reads an XML file.  
The problem is that I need to update the XML file.  
Unfortunately… the old XML files ALWAYS gets cached.  
How do I overcome this?

Read in from a database instead?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

OM