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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hollywood" data-source="post: 465809" data-attributes="member: 7408">Interesting idea Ranger One, but that becomes a major support hassle for WotC and/or the developer behind the software.  Really, this issue has been around since about the time of Quake [actually before, but it got popular with Quake] and frankly in most communities, the community does a good job of policing itself without need for formalized, and expensive, developer/publisher interferance.I never followed the MasterTools/eTools evolution all that much, but I don't recall that XML was ever proposed to be used as a database.  And it probably shouldn't really as markup languages, of which XML and HTML are two of, aren't really built to be such [that being said, there are XML databases out there, but having no experience with them I couldn't say much about them from a technical side].  On the other hand, use of XML as a portable and non-proprietary method of storing characters for export or use in creating print or web output is a good use of that technology [and far better than putting your own propertary lookups in a text file and parsing it for that information].</blockquote>