Hello everyone, First let me apologize if this is a taboo topic. I have been unsubbed from this list for a while, so I may be out of sync with convention. If I should take this question elsewhere, please show me the door.
I'm interested in learning more about XML as a format for transporting data from one application to another. I have access to a server running MySQL, which currently stores data concerning some graphics files used by my department. I thought that it would be fun to use Python to develop a primitive client program and accompanying CGI scripts to see if I can automate some of the data entry that is normally done manually via a content-management site that I have been working on, and use XML as the transmission format. Note that the purpose of this exercise is not so much functionality as it is self-improvement, so issues such as execution speed are not concerns of mine. When I decided to look into combining MySQL with XML, I checked the archives for this list. What I found was a 30+ message thread about whether or not XML data should be stored in a relational database, and the difference between the two storage schemas. This is why I ask hesitantly: the thread was exactly a year old, and I am not sure if some of the opinions about this have changed. After reading the thread, I feel somewhat more enlightened, but not fully convinced that XML is incompatible with RDBMS. It strikes me that one is an excellent schema for storing and retrieving data, and the other is an excellent schema for structuring that data into a string or document destined for HTTP transmission. Can anyone point me in the direction of an article or essay that they found particularly informative about this topic? It is likely that I am barking up the wrong tree, but storing data in flat files doesn't seem to be the only way to use XML. I don't plan on beginning this project for a couple of weeks at least, so it's not really important. Again, if this is an inappropriate question for the list, send me packing. Thanks, Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
