@lettosprey @cstross Yes—I had to do exactly that in the late 2000s! For several years, our freelancer team created Flash microsites for Landrover’s annual Live Rallye, crunching daily images, videos, and diary entries transmitted per satellite from the Malaysian jungle and similar. And during my very first call with Landrover’s UK IT department, I was told that, for security reasons, we couldn’t use a data base! That’s how I came to create an #XML backend as a stand-in for SQL.

Fun times!