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Re: Ozone and Apache XML database project?
On Thu, 01 Mar 2001, Tim Brown wrote:
> I think a restatement of the requirements would be helpful. Please do. I tend to
> see XML as a data format to be used as one sees fit. As a result I may skip over
> things or ignore important ideas. I have done this with XML here as I am very
> busy. How do people see XML fitting into Ozone?
You are raising the first and very important point - document centric versus
data centric approach. Personally I see a XML database as a way to store
documents that are already XML or that are (semi)structured in any way. More
or less a document server - this is what ozone can be. Using XML as a data
format to store relational or any other kind of _data_ makes no sense IMO.
However, from the questions in the mail list it seems that not all people agree
with me here... ;)
Falko
>
> Tim
>
> Falko Braeutigam wrote:
>
> > You raised some issues in you mail. We already started to work on the new XML
> > support. Lars has proposed a new architecture which I think is a very good
> > strarting point. IMO XML is the most important point currently. And it is a good
> > point for others to jump in because we need a completely new concept, design
> > and implementation. Should we start things by discussing the requirements and
> > the concept of the new ozone/XML?
> >
> > Falko
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> Tim Brown
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