It was Fergal (and maybe Scott too) who demonstrated this at the conference.....
As I remember he had a system with questions which had any number of anwers - since it was unpredictable the number of possible answers to a question storing the DOM in a database meant that he didn't need n number of columns in a table (for each answer) - storing it as a DOM - meant the way the data was stored was very flexible - as in more/less records more/less attributes for records - this is the biggest advantage for me... he helped me through doing this stuff a few months ago and now I use it all the time.... --- Chuck Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the conference, someone demonstrated using a Dom > stored in a column and > did a search for records based on an element value. > What is the > advantages/disadvantages to using this technique? > > Opinions? > > Chuck Lockwood > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > LockData Technologies, Inc. > 309 Main Avenue, Hawley, Pa 18428 > 570-226-7340 ~ Fax: 570-226-7341 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.lockdata.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf
