whenever a large amount of data has to be maintained, regardless of the nature of the data, using electronic databases is the natural thing to do.

at function2form you will find year long experience with employing databases, be it for storage and annotation of linguistic data in xml databases, maintanance of client data in mysql or ldap bases, or working with spreadsheets.

in the past, an annotation tool has been developed by the founder of function2form that could be used to render, group and manipulate linguistic data stored in an xml database. the tool used strictly xml-related means only: svg for rendering, and xslt, xpath and xpointer for transformations.

more widespread use of databases, of course, is found in connection with dynamic webpages and client databases.