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I am wondering, can a dynamic web site like Y!A or Facebook store all it’s data on XML files only, without using expensive DB like SQL Server. What do you think? Why it can be done and why it doesn’t a good idea after all?

Well, Everything is told in title… I need only .swf file as final product, without php, jsp, xml, or other files. If anyone knows how, or link to .fla file with that possibilities. Thank you very much.

XML files have declarations that define the file encoding… But having this dynamic information…how does one know the encoding in which to read the file, since we still don’t know the encoding written in declaration before opening it? In other words, how come that Encoding Declaration is recursive? i.e. it defines its own encoding (as [...]