Wow, this is turning into quite a research project.
Thanks for the tip about ontologies; it doesn't make
much sense to me yet, but I'll take a closer look at
the article.
In the meantime, I'm thinking of using a content
management system called Plone. Unfortunately, I've so
far been unable to inst
That's an excellent paper. However, David (the OP) is not actually in
control, nor is he designing his ontology He is attempting to build a
persistence/retrieval system for the taxonomy (ontology) that the
scientific community has already created to categorize life on our planet
(Kingdom, Phylu
May be you should consider building an ontology with your data base. This links
will provides ideas to explore this avenue:
http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontology-tutorial-noy-mcguinness-abstract.html
Raoul
David Blomstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been gathering data for
Thanks for all the tips. That makes it much clearer. I
think I'll stick with PHP and MySQL and gradually
introduce a little XML if it fits in.
I just downloaded a content management system called
Plone, which is supposed to be a good choice for
hierarchical databases.
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Hi ,
First of all it should be clear that XML is only a well organised
representation of data a mere text file.
It is not a software . U will have to append entries all by urself to
the file, and marking up suitable tags ( say the attribute of ur
relational table) .
Data will have to be extracted
MySQL is a relational database. XML is a text file.
the biggest difference is that MySQL will let you organize, sort,
match/link (joins), and otherwise manipulate the data you have. XML is
just text with tags in a heirarchy; anything other than reading it in a
text editor will take programming
I've been gathering data for an animal kingdom
database for quite some time and am now trying to
figure out how to organize and display it. So far, I
have a table that lists every order, suborder, family,
subfamily, genus and species of mammal in a
child-parent relationship, like this:
NAME | PARE
