Gary Huntress ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> In the past few days 3 different people have asked me about "xml support" in
> mysql. I was unsure what to tell them actually, beyond saying "you can
> easily export recordsets to xml documents". Obviously you can store
> entire XML documents in a TEXT field, but I'm not sure thats really the
> functionality that they want.
I don't understand this. Do they want to wrap their data in XML to produce output?
That's relatively trivial and shouldn't be done in the server, but any MySQL-aware
language (PHP, Perl, Escapade, etc.) would be able to produce XML output easily from
data.
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Squished Mosquito, Inc.
Internet Applications Development
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Pensacola - Dallas - Dresden - London
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