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• Subject: RE: If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd be better off as a crossing guard
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:31:56 -0500
• In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0304010102580.2702-100000@f...>

martin@h... writes:
>so at xmlhack, you're putting markup into text fields in an MS Access
>database, and then export the data as XML, even though Access doesn't
>know that certain fields are markup? and then you piece it together
>into XHTML? sounds like fun. sounds like regexp!

No, xmlhack uses MySQL and some reasonably sane custom code Edd Dumbill
wrote.  Storing markup as text works just fine as long as the
surrounding framework knows what's what.

The Access issues are for another set of projects.

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