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[Malcolm, Gary]

there is great benefit to xml because the mark-up can give the data
*meaningful and relational labels*

if I give a schema or DTD(the xml rules im playing with) to a business
partner s/he can write an XSLT(translator) to use the information in a
variety of formats
independent of connectivity or output source
ie.,
<pre>
<sender>
	<name> gary</name>
	<job>hacker</job>
</sender>

parsed to

<div>name:gary<p /> job:hacker</div>

or

Gary is a hacker

or *spoken*
</pre>

once your backend is up the parsing and verifying of good data is TOTALLY
left to our silicon friends.

besides... quite a few db's now store xml natively (Apache Xindice)
http://xml.apache.org/xindice/

pretty cool

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Baer [mailto:jonbaer at jonbaer.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 06 May, 2003 4:17 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] XML Query story
> 
> 
> http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1000086.html?tag=fd_top
> 
> -snip-
> "How do you make traditional database languages like SQL 
> (Structured Query
> Language) work with XML?" asked W3C spokeswoman Janet Daly in 
> an interview
> with CNET News.com. "The XML Query working group has been 
> putting together a
> framework of documents that provide the technical answer to 
> that question,
> so that XML documents can start to look like parts of one 
> massive database."
> 
> -snip-
> 
> What I kinda find a little dumb is if SQL is already a 
> standard why does it
> have to work w/ XML?  If a database was open to the web what 
> is wrong with
> just querying it in the first place ...
> 
> - Jon
> 
> 
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