# XML = Easy Database?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-easy-database/31584>\
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**Created:** [September 24, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-easy-database/31584 "2003-09-24T16:04:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![andrthad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andrthad](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andrthad)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-easy-database/31584/1 "2003-09-24T16:04:50Z")

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Hi folks,

I’ll begin by saying my knowledge on XML is very limited. I have seen xml files. When looking at the files it appears that they are very clean structures of data that are layered and other data is nested inside.

I have kind of put off XML because I have experience in databases, mostly MS Access, but I am learning PHP/MySQL. Is there really any more functionality that XML can give you versus a MySQL database?