Re: Using XML and a relational database

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:21:00 -0400, Gregory Burd <gburd_at_sleepycat.com> wrote:

>On 2003-08-30 07:19:56 -0400, "comcast" <j.tolson_at_comcast.net> said:
>
>> Hello all,
>> I am developing an interface system for an application I was written. This
>> interface will connect to other system to share information. I would like
>> to use
>> xml and xsl to generically describe each interface. The trouble I am having
>> is that it seem that if you export in xml by table then it is impossible to
>> combine the xml tables files back together in a hierarchical fashion. I can
>> do it programmatically but I would like to do it with xsl so that knowledge
>> of the database is not in the code but in the xsl. I can write generic code
>> for dumping tables and sql statements. But formatting should be generic.
>> Can this be done is xsl?

You are asking the wrong question. The question you should ask when considering XML for any task is always the same: "Is XML suited to this task?" The answer is also always the same: "No."

>Why are you using a relational database for XML? We have a native XML
>database that could solve your problems.

Words fail me.

Lemming

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