You most likely don't want to store binary data in any database. Storage of data is better left to the filesystem since you most likely don't want so search for bit-patterns?
That rule is valid for most databases since it slowes them down conciderably .) ./regards Florian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Saxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <xindice-users@xml.apache.org> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:05 AM Subject: best practice inserting bobs or images into xindice > Hi > I am just beginning with Xindice 1.0. This is fun! > > I have a couple questions. > > I have IDREFs. e.g. reference from employee to boss. is there any more elegant way to resolve them, say to Name, other than an additional fetch? I think I am looking for something like an SQL view. > > I am aware that the ability to insert blobs was removed. I assume blobs were being used to store images, but didn't find a discussion about its replacement. Now I wonder what is the current best practice for storing such ancilary parts. Is it this: encode the binary as text chars and wrap in xml as cdata? Any restriction on the encoding? And finally is the i/o transformation a good job for XMLObject? > > Thanks > > Don >
