Xml & Vb.net?

[lilgirl]

Hi, I currently have a VB.NET application that reads and writes to
XML documents on my local machine. I would like to put these XML documents on a server and access them through my application. My question is: how would one implement file sharing and locking so that when one user is updating a file, other users can view it as read-only. The vb.net function I currently use to update the XML files is LoadXML. Would
there be a way to implement these locks on files through
VB or would I be better off transferring all the documents to a native XML database like Xindice or Tamino?

Thanks very much.

 

[lilgirl]

bump~

 

[JABE]

In my case, I just store the data relationally in SQL Server 2000. When I need to generate the XML file, I use SELECT ... FOR XML and persist the output to file. I havent tried native XML databases though, so I cant vouch for them.