> > > XML will become a common and powerful way to express/exchange data
> > > on the web. I hope MySQL decides to go along for the ride.
> >
> > This is all fine and good, but why does MySQL itself have to do this?
> >
> We don't want Microsoft and Oracle to take over the world, do we? :)
Their popularity does not imply sound design. Just that they have
superior marketing.
> > My naive understanding is that it would be effortless to write a module
> > in perl that translates the data returned by the DBI to XML.
> I'm not a perl expert so I cannot speak to that. However, I doubt that
> it's effortless or trivial.
Why would it be easier to write said layer if it was inside the DBMS
instead of outside?
--
Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Technical Staff / System Development,
New York Connect.Net, Ltd.
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