Matt,

Are you suggesting development of a wrapper around MySQL to convert XML to
SQL and back, so that you would have a pseudo XML front end to mysqld?

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Wagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 7:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: James Cox; Javier Gonzalo Gloria Medina
> Subject: Re: xml
>
>
> On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 11:52, Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 05:37:28PM -0000, James Cox wrote:
> > > Anyhow,
> > >
> > > Mysql can return data in XML.....
> >
> > The client can, but not the server, right?
>
> Jeremy,
>
> Correct, currently only the 'mysql' (-X option in MySQL 4.x) and
> 'mysqldump' (-X option in MySQL 3.23) client programs can return XML
> output.
>
> We believe that this sort of functionality belongs in the client
> programs and libraries. So that means for direct server XML interaction
> support would have to be added to the libmysqlclient library. Not bloat
> the 'mysqld' code.
>
> Of course inputting XML to a MySQL database is quite a different and
> more difficult task. It would require a lot more monkey business of some
> piece of software knowing how to map the XML schema into the DB schema.
>
> This is one of those fluffy features that is not traditionally in the
> RDBMS project scope -- and therefore lends itself to be a prime project
> for corporate sponsorship.
>
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>
> Regards,
>
>     Matt
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