MySQL has no support for XML and I hope it doesn't, ever. There was a big
discussion about this last month. You can read up about it in the archives
found at the mysql site.
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From: "Bryan Coon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:23
Subject: MySQL and XML?
>
> Can anyone offer some insight into the following topic?
>
> I would like to provide web access to search a large database of
> information. Currently, I am using MySQL to do this, and it works great.
> However, this database is almost entirely static, there are virtually no
> inserts or updates done.
>
> For accessing information with this structure, is an RDBM the most
efficient
> way to search through this information? I know Oracle has been modified
to
> use XML files as the database, making queries directly to a flat file
> (although I have not seen it in action).
>
> Does MySQL support anything of this nature, or is anyone working on any
> module along these lines? What is the advantage for using a flat file? I
> am fairly new to this kind of thing, I would like to learn more.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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