Lineage/heritage of XML datastores...
From: BobTheDataBaseBoy <"xxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:21:16 -0500
Message-ID: <cbGdnWqFj69FTADYnZ2dnUVZ_ternZ2d_at_rcn.net>
... not that I think they should even exist. Quite the opposite. But what prompts the question is: I recall threads here and there which say something like - XML is from SGML is from GML is from IBM & DEC 1960's data transfer facilities - but none have provided (that I can recall) names or even acronyms for these originating facilities. While surfing for the answer (without success), I thought that it certainly seems plausible that such a facility would exist in the IMS world, from the start. ???/IMS/XML, the family tree from pointer hell.
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:21:16 -0500
Message-ID: <cbGdnWqFj69FTADYnZ2dnUVZ_ternZ2d_at_rcn.net>
... not that I think they should even exist. Quite the opposite. But what prompts the question is: I recall threads here and there which say something like - XML is from SGML is from GML is from IBM & DEC 1960's data transfer facilities - but none have provided (that I can recall) names or even acronyms for these originating facilities. While surfing for the answer (without success), I thought that it certainly seems plausible that such a facility would exist in the IMS world, from the start. ???/IMS/XML, the family tree from pointer hell.
Any other olde geezers out there, but who remember a name for these? Or know that it's truly a myth; S/GML is truly original? Received on Fri Jan 05 2007 - 05:21:16 CET