Hi Rob and David, Sorry for being destructive a little bit, but I'm not sure wether use of an XML database is really advisable. There may be a few advantages, but there are also a number of disadvantages. First of all, as far as I understand, users can chose which database they want to use for the management of literature. After an XML database is introduced this choice is very limited as there are only few XML databases at all and only a subset of them is free. The performance advantage mentioned is often not really there as relational databases are much more advanced, tested and optimized than XML database currently are. In addition to that, I can't believe that any OO user has more than a few hundred or at most some few thousand records for literature. With the integration of XML features in relational databases it seems obvious to me, that XML databases will go the same way that object oriented databases did. Their importance diminished and today hardly anybody uses them. So if an XML database connection should make it into OO than I would recommend to introduce it only as an option, not as mandatory element. Kind regards Ren� Peinl
-----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Rob Winchester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 24. Januar 2005 11:46 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [xml-dev] XML-Database Support in OOo ? Hi David, Im not really able to really answer this but would something like the X/Open XA protocol (resource manager) be helpful here? Ie something that is sort of both DB and "business logic"). In the back of my mind I see OOo being integrated with this feature (esp. something like IBM MQ xml) but Im not ready to implement anything. http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/1756161 http://cbbrowne.com/info/tpmonitor.html Your project is very impressive, btw! Rob Winchester --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
