Re: What is the logic of storing XML in a Database?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:57:18 +0200
Message-ID: <87tzw236gh.fsf_at_snobis.de>
"Daniel" <danielaparker_at_gmail.com> writes:
> In some sense, avoiding having to solve this problem is the entire
No, XML does in no way address the real problem: documentation and
semantics. For example the problem Bernard Peek described was not
really solved by using XML but by documentation and clear
semantics. XML is no help here, because people are not *forced* to
define a schema neither to write documentation. If you have a XML
document without schema and documentation or even with (a complex)
schema but without documentations (so you have no or little ideas
about semantics) you are just as lost as with every (undocumented)
binary format.
XML is no real help here.
> reason for XML.
And for the records: There are binary standards like RFC 1014 (XDR).
-- Stefan.Received on Fri Mar 30 2007 - 20:57:18 CEST