Re: Is XML good for database work?

by "Hans-Henrik T. Ohlsen" <ht(at)ohlsen.dk>

Date:	Thu, 23 Mar 2000 02:10:39 +0100
To:	"Keith Purtell" <kpurtell(at)vantagemed.net>, <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	kpurtell
	todo: View Thread, Original

> 
> The company I work for is investigating the benefits of using XML on an
> extranet that will interact with a standard database. I haven't done much
> with XML, so I'm wondering what it's strengths and weaknesses might be,
> especially for database work.

That is basically the point with XML. Keep data XML formatted, and then use 
style sheets to style the data for XHTML, WML etc.

FYI, there is a - not too active - xml-mailinglist available under hwg.


Regards,

Hans-Henrik


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