Re: XML vs. databases
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:43:52 +0100
Message-ID: <3B458858.1CFB_at_rswheeldon.com>
None wrote:
> As more and more people demand XML being used in their database
> projects, there are a few things I don't get. How do you delete or
> update using XML?
With great difficuly. Using XML files as a database is a very stupid idea, imho. XML has its uses, but trying to replace a traditional relational database is not one of them.
> What are some other problems you have seen when integrating databases
> and XML?
The biggest problem is typing. Databases support concepts such as dates, times, numbers, etc. xml doesn't.
Xml also doesn't support any constraint checking internally.
Thus you can have a valid xml wrt a dtd and still not know whether the data makes sense,
Richard Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 11:43:52 CEST