Hello,

I am using XML files to save data for Products and Brands and I have
the following (example):

<Products>
  <Product>
    <Id>1</Id>
    <Name>Series 3</Name>
    <Brand>
      <Id>1</Id>
      <Name>BMW</Name>
    </Brand>
  </Product>
</Products>

And on Brands I have:

<Brands>
  <Brand>
    <BrandId>1</BrandId>
    <Name>BMW</Name>
  </Brand>
</Brands>

I think that on products I should change it to:

  <Product>
    <ProductId>1</ProductId>
    <Name>Series 3</Name>
    <BrandId>1</BrandId>
  </Product>

Replicating how a database works and then using LINQ to build the
Product object that contains Brand object.
This way if a Brand changes I don't need to change all the records in
Products.

What do you think?

And if I have a Many to Many relationship I could do something like:

<Products>
  <Product>
    <ProductId>1</ProductId>
    <Name>Series 3</Name>
  </Product>
</Products>

<Brands>
  <Brand>
    <BrandId>1</BrandId>
    <Name>BMW</Name>
  </Brand>
</Brands>

<ProductsBrands>
  <ProductBrand>
     <ProductId>1</ProductId>
     <BrandId>1</BrandId>
  </ProductBrand>
<ProductsBrands>

Is this the way to go?

Thanks,
Miguel