Spiders & XML

Do extensible databases make a tasty meal?

[NetGrease]

I'm thinking of compiling and maintaining an XML d/b of my reciprocal links (click here [webmasterworld.com] for the related thread) and rather than outputting the individual XML entries using ASP or something, could I infact just use an XSL document to format the information ready for viewing by spiders?

I'm assuming of course that spiders can read/understand XML/XSL information in the first place...

[Brett_Tabke]

They can read it, but they won't index it. I've not found an engine that will realiably take a xml document. I stumbled upon one yesterday at Google that caused ie to blue screen on me, and I couldn't remember the search I was in.

[NetGrease]

Thanks Brett.

It might be a better idea for me to transpose the information from XML into ASP then.