XML vs. rel DBs [was: Re: [nycphp-talk] Many pages: one script]
Daniel Krook
krook at us.ibm.com
Mon Aug 13 12:48:30 EDT 2007
Steve,
> Elliotte Harold wrote:
>
> > Closer to home, think about a blogging system or a
> content management
> > system. Now imagine what you could do if the page structure were
> > actually queryable, and not just an opaque blob in MySQLsomewhere.
>
> This is a fascinating discussion. I can see how an NXD
> might be a very
> good fit for medical information systems where a logic
> encounter record
> might encompass dozens of normalized relational model
> tables. What are
> some of the stable, production-worthy open source servers out there?
Here's a press release put out today on a healthcare provider that appears
to be using XML in DB9 v9 for that sort of thing. Express-C is free (not
open source though) and comes with the pureXML feature.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22131.wss
DB2 9 w/ PHP info
http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/ad/php.html
Daniel Krook
Content Tools Developer - SCSA, SCJP, SCWCD, ZCE, ICDAssoc.
Global Solutions, ibm.com
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