XML in Mnesia: Benefits


Characteristics of the underlying database - Mnesia :
Locks
Transactions
Mnesia optimizations
Table partitioning
...

Fast and easy queries
Possibility to use the standard queries of the Mnesia system (e.g. Mnesia match_object or Mnemosyne).

Fast and easy updates
XML was not designed to handle side effects. The use of Mnesia makes the update of XML as easy as standard database update.