Berkeley DB XML is exciting to me for multiple reasons. Text data is appealing (as you’ll realize as you read The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML), and I crave technologies that make it easy to work with. XML is attractive for its flexibility, XPath for its intuitive elegance, XSLT for its declarative nature, and so on. I know f ull well that XML didn’t break new technical ground or invent something we didn’t already have. I don’t care about that. What XML did was to convince an industry to use it—and to use it everywhere. Call it hype; call it The Man. The bottom line is that I now have an astonishing array of tools and technologies, all compatible, to work with data as I like. 有源码另外提供。 ull well that XML didn’t break new technical ground or invent something we didn’t already have. I don’t care about that. What XML did was to convince an industry to use it—and to use it everywhere. Call it hype; call it The Man. The bottom line is that I now have an astonishing array of tools and technologies, all compatible, to work with data as I like. 有源码另外提供。