Re: [stellation-res] Database abstraction

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 14 August 2002 12:32 pm, mkamp@xxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   why not use XML/XSLT? It seems like a natural choice to me?!
>
>   It would be nice to define the structure of the database as an xml-schema
> and generate the DDL from that using XSLT. The Stylesheet could come with
> an extra style sheet per database to store the keywords specific to a
> particular database vendor.

Well, given the negative response to anything elaborate in the 
database abstraction layer so far, I doubt that anyone will be thrilled with 
an XML approach. If I'm wrong, and enough people like the idea, I'm willing 
to give it a look.

	-Mark

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