Some interesting points were brought up in relation to my question.
As far as XML databases, how many are a fact right now? I am curious since I am still in mainly a relational DB world still. I am used to mySQL, SQLAnywhere and MS SQL Server 6.5 / 7.0 and they are all still relational. I am not familiar the latest and greatest, as it takes a while to filter down to agencies with legacy db's. Also even if MS SQL Server 2000 did manage to do a decent XML dump, many programmers are still using the sql interface and getting a normal result set to deal with. We are in a transitional time which is going to take 3-5 years to achieve so it will be interesting to see how this one rolls over. well that was my friday rambling But more seriously I am pondering the resultset to XML object representation as a means to generate internal data stores. Using the XML representation as an easy and standard way to handle data while you are dealing with it in Java. I hate building my own custom classes to handle data, easy to do, but time consuming. I find it simplier to use a JDOM or now I am playig with dom4j, a DOM4j data model, where I don't have to build my own custom getter/setter and manulipaltion functions. In the future I suppose using JAXB to generate the XML representation would be the way to go, But it seems to me being able to do it from a Database dump rather than a Schema would also be extremely useful. I guess where this is leading me, how are other programmers using dom4j document model. Is it mainly just a step to use before XSLT for many programmers? Are others using it for internal data stores like myself? Or what other use have you found which dom4j makes sense I know these are very general questions, but these are the questions that come to mind in reading the various replies to my last post. Thanks Casey Kochmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
