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Originally posted by Jeremy_Mc
I don't think XML is the way to go...
you can't get "real time" readings from it if you post it on a web site without sucking up major resources. a database (like mySQL) would be wayyy faster and wayyy more efficient.
XML is icky...
*jeremy
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the XML would be generated from a mysql database (or access, or SQL-server or oracle, or however you store data). not everybody can allow external connections to their database. You can fetch an xml file (which would be generated that instant from a php, or asp, or cgi script, or whatever) and then process that. Can't get more 'real time' than that. The XML is just a standard way of transporting data. The end user can do whatever they want with it, they just need to be able to read & process XML,.