Glorious Sunday morning greetings to you Jan,
No, XML is a format for 2 different applications, usually 2 totally separate
applications, to be able to exchange data. It is not an appropriate choice
for storing large amounts of data that will have to be queried. Nor is it an
appropriate choice of language for talking to an RDBMS. Outside of the fact
that it can be extremely verbose, we already have a perfectly good language
for that, SQL. SQL is a language for committing data to a storage mechanism
and retrieving the data back. It is superior to XML in those tasks.
Again, if you have need to talk to your RDBMS via XML then a thin wrapper
written in the language of your choice is the proper way to go. This allows
you to do your job without bloating my application with unnecessary code.
And I also disagree with your statement that there is no difference between
metadata and data. there most certainly is. But that's a discussion for
another thread.
humbly,
Cal
http://www.calevans.com
p.s. another reason not to include it is NOBODY wants to distract the MySQL
coders from getting 4.0 frozen and out the door! :)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jan Dvorak
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 10:13 AM
To: Ed Carp
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: XML support under mySQL
Ed Carp wrote:
>
> Gorjan Todorovski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
>
> > Since XML is a way to exchange data...and it is protocol/platform
indepdnent
> > there is a very good reason to have XML docuemts going in and out the
>
> No, it's not. You store *data* in a database, *not* metadata. Do you
understand the difference?
There is no difference.
What is metadata in one context, is data in another context.
It's just a matter of your standpoint, which can change with time.
XML is a format to store/exchange data.
Jan Dvorak
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