Re: XML
| From: | MikeParton | Date: | Fri, 28 Jun 2002 00:16:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: XML | ||
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On the other hand, proclaimed "native" XML databases (eg, Software AG's
Tamino, Ixiasoft's TEXTML) store the "XML-wrapped" data in the database...no
need to wrap and unwrap the metadata, document/data structure from the data.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Carp" <erc@pobox.com>
To: "Peter Lovatt" <pjln1@sunmaia.net>; <php-db@lists.php.net>;
<mysql@lists.mysql.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:10 PM
Subject: RE: XML
> > I am looking at a project using XML to import and export data into MySql
> > directly or using php. The datasets are quite large (40-50 million
records)
>
> XML is a metadata technology - you wrap data in XML. You don't use XML to
import or export data. You don't store XML in a
> database, you store data.
>
> When you fetch the data from the database, you wrap it in XML and send it
on its way. Does that make it simpler?
>
> sql,mysql
>
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