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  • From: John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>
  • To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] XML vrs relational
  • Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:23:15 +0000

Aloha,

I recommend reading all of the 4+ rated comments. Lots of good stuff
and still a very controversial topic. IMO, I don't think that XML is
exclusive to object or relational databases, but rather a bridge
mechanism between the two.

Yep...
If you dig around some you'll probably find lots of heated arguments about XML as a DB...best stuff I've read points out that XML is *not* "a database"!! It's a markup language, which can be used in conjunction with various types of databases.

However apparently there have been lots of people who have used it as a (design?) basis for a DB structure. AFAIK that's definitely not what it was designed for, so it is sooner or later problematic when used that way.

John S.


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