[Refdb-users] Re: nitpicking (element ordering in risx)

[Marc H. <mar...@en...>]

>=A0In any
> case I don't understand the advantage of maintaining your references
> outside of a database. You can retrieve them from the database as XML
> files and update them any time. You can even retrieve the full
> database as XML periodically and check this into CVS. But the point of
> a reference manager is to make the references accessible by simple
> queries. If you maintain your data outside the database, you're back
> to grep, or you overload your brain with things a database was
> designed to remember.

IMHO, doing this is also interesting in order to test/debug refdb. XML
as the "master" copy buys you some reliability, which does not prevent
using all the nifty features of a ("slave") database. The price to
pay, of course, is about frequently updating the slave. I suspect this
can be highly automated, though.