Re: HTML in MySQL Tables

2004-05-21 Thread Greg Willits
On May 21, 2004, at 9:14 PM, David Blomstrom wrote: --- Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "If "Cowboy State" has a semantic meaning, like "nickname", you might want to think about either having a field for it or, if it's part of a text segment that doesn't lend itself to that, use a seman

Re: HTML in MySQL Tables

2004-05-21 Thread Hassan Schroeder
David Blomstrom wrote: You mean I can make up a name for a "semantic tag," designating every nicknname or every emphasized word , for example? Yep, XML lets you create your own DTD/schema -- though sometimes it makes sense to use (or leverage) an existing one. And is this something that can only b

Re: HTML in MySQL Tables

2004-05-21 Thread David Blomstrom
--- Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "If "Cowboy State" has a semantic meaning, like "nickname", you might want to think about either having a field for it or, if it's part of a text segment that doesn't lend itself to that, use a semantic tag for it, like `Cowboy State, (reinforced ...

Re: HTML in MySQL Tables

2004-05-21 Thread David Blomstrom
--- Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "If "Cowboy State" has a semantic meaning, like "nickname", you might want to think about either having a field for it or, if it's part of a text segment that doesn't lend itself to that, use a semantic tag for it, like `Cowboy State, (reinforced ...

Re: HTML in MySQL Tables

2004-05-21 Thread Hassan Schroeder
David Blomstrom wrote: Some time ago, I posted a question about using HTML in MySQL tables. Someone suggested this is a bad strategy, asking what I would do if I later decided to change the italicized words to bold, for example. I'm just trying to figure out what the options are, as well as deter