pcplantdb

[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Theres a nice discussion on slashdot about the advantages and 
disadvantages of relational and object (XML) databases.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/10/2043202

The first comment:

>  The thing the XML databases are nice for is if folks can't really 
lock down the schema.

Seems to sum it up for me.

Can we lock down the schema, do we want to? By this I mean do we want a 
fixed set of fields for tha plant data. If we do this it kind of locks 
down the database and the type of info which people can add, creating an 
inflexiable system.

When new data such as the tanplants data comes along it could be a big 
job to adapt a relational model to fit.

Apoligies for revisiting old ground.

Rich