<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I'm developing a web application using Microsoft ASP.NET. &nbsp;Should I use Access or XML for the data store? &nbsp;What are the Pros and Cons of each of these?<br />
<br />
I'm currently using XML; which appears to work quite well. &nbsp;Is this the best choice?
</div>
</div>


I'm developing a web application using Microsoft ASP.NET.  Should I use Access or XML for the data store?  What are the Pros and Cons of each of these?

I'm currently using XML; which appears to work quite well.  Is this the best choice?

Access vs XML

The successor to Active Server Pages, ASP.NET websites utilize the .NET framework to produce dynamic, data and content-driven web applications and services. ASP.NET code can be written using any .NET supported language. As of 2009, ASP.NET can also apply the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern to web applications

ASP.NET

Extensible Markup Language (XML) refers to the encoding of documents such that they can be read by both machines and humans. XML documents use tags to show the beginning and end of a set of data. XML is used extensively on websites to show volumes of data, and is the default for a number of office productivity suites. This topic includes discussions of XML-related technologies, such as XQuery (the XML Query language), XPath (the XML Path language), XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), XLink (the XML Linking language) and XPointer (the XML Pointer language).

Microsoft Access is a rapid application development (RAD) relational database tool. Access can be used for both desktop and web-based applications, and uses VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as its coding language.