An XML Design Possibility Question

Hello Folks,

  I was pondering a possibility for consideration and wondered if this isn't 
that reasonable of an approach to this problem. First consider the following 
XML Structure:

<data>
  <book index="1">
        <title>data</title>
        <author>data</author>
        <isbn>data</isbn>
        <category>data</category>
        <description>data</description>
        <link>M</link>
  </book>
. . .
  <book index="200">
        <title>data</title>
        <author>data</author>
        <isbn>data</isbn>
        <category>data</category>
        <description>data</description>
        <link>M</link>
  </book>
</data>

  Here's what I am pondering, to store a book list in an XML file then reading 
it into say an Array and building a list based on <DL> list markup. My question 
is it feasible to sort the order of the data by a number of factors say 
Category, or Alphabetically by Author or perhaps Title. Given the number of 
items this won't display on just one page but would have to create a series of 
panels to display say 10 or 20 at a time via selectable links say "1-10", 
"11-20", etc.

  I know I can do this with a RDBMS easily. The question is what is a decent 
approach to doing this with an XML file. This is just a pondering on my part of 
having another technique to solve this fairly common problem.

  Any comments appreciated.
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Best regards,
 Robert                          mailto:robert-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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