Best way to search data in xml files?

Question

In our new project we have to provide a search functionality to retrieve data from hundreds of xml files. I have a brief of our current plan below, I would like to know your sug

Answer 1

Why dont you store the searchable data in a database table with key to the actual file? So your search would be on database table rather than xml file. I suppose this would be faster because you may index the table for faster searching.