I need to create a report generation system which sends the reports to a DB. Can I replace the DB with an XML file, so that I don't have to use a server. Is it even possible?
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If you want multiple users to share the same XML file you'll have to have a server to store that copy. If all you need is one file you might be able to get away with hosting this file on some service like github or dropbox. – Lix Aug 29 '14 at 10:14
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no, only one user will be accessing the application. – Chandresh singh Aug 29 '14 at 10:16
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Ok - how does this user access the system? Does it only exist locally on one machine? – Lix Aug 29 '14 at 10:18
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yeah it exists locally. And actions performed by the user would go into that XML file, can it be done? – Chandresh singh Aug 29 '14 at 10:19
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If all you have is a single browser running local JavaScript I don't think that there is currently an option to write data to files. – Lix Aug 29 '14 at 10:23
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You can create an HTML 5 web page that generates an xml file and let the user save it. On the next time the user can supply the page with the last generated xml. Look here: How to open a local disk file with Javascript?
Also, you can use HTML 5 key value store for loading every time the last data file generated.
I would recommend exploring those 2 options, and maybe later on adding a server to store the data.
