What about  what about , um , the idea of using a relational database to , uh , store the information from the XML ? So you would have  XML basically would  Uh , you  you could use the XML to put the data in , and then when you get data out , you put it back in XML. So use XML as sort of the  the transfer format ,
Transfer.
uh , but then you store the data in the database , which allows you to do all kinds of  good search things in there.
The , uh  One of the things that ATLAS is doing is they 're trying to define an API which is independent of the back store ,