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At 21:55 30/01/1999 , David Megginson wrote: | In other words, concentrate on your XML exchange formats and use an | RDBMS on the backend (or, perhaps, an OODB if your traffic isn't too | high). If there ever is an XML repository with such good performance | that you want to throw out Oracle or Sybase, then you can redo the | backend without causing incompatibilities the frontend. I agree with David. To my mind, XML is the ideal too for achieving that object-oriented goal of "data hiding". That is, it allows me to specify an exact, known interface for talking to the world. Internally then, I can do anything I like, and change it as often as I like, without affecting anyone else. I mean, lets get real here, XML is not the answer to all the world's problems. I like relational databases. (There, I've said it now.) And for all those XML-obsessed people out there: get a life! XML is just another tool in the solution developer's toolkit. Nothing more, nothing less. J ------------------------- James Robertson Step Two Designs Pty Ltd SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy http://www.steptwo.com.au/ jamesr@s... "Beyond the Idea" ACN 081 019 623 xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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