[XML-SIG] ODBC-XML-Interface

Rich Salz rsalz@caveosystems.com
Mon, 04 Dec 2000 19:53:43 -0500


> I've been thinking for a while about XML's relationship to databases and
> evaluating its use as an "editing UI" for the (MySQL) databases.  It
> would involve converting a database structure to XML and back, although
> not using the Database API for the XML part.

You might want to poke around microsoft.com and see how they're integrating
xml, sqlserver, etc.   query the scheme and write the DTD/schema on the fly.
replace SQL queries with xpath, etc.  parts are pretty cool.  shoudl be some
good ideas there.
	/r$