[PHP] OT - mapping XML objects to a relational DB From: Frank Joerdens (frank <email protected>)
Date: 09/22/00

I will be implementing a little content managament system with MySQL (it
doesn't have PostgreSQL's 8K limitation) or PostgreSQL (I know it better
than MySQL) which will be fairly limited initally but might actually
grow into something rather large. Hence I don't really like the idea of
mapping the structure of the documents that will be fed into the
database straight to the database as this allows for little
extensibility. In fact, if a new requirement comes along to feed a
document into the database that is structured completely differently, my
tables, being geared to one particular document type, won't be able to
accommodate this structure.

Now, given that XML was designed with precisely this requirement in mind
and given that OODBMS's are acutally being used for this purpose, I am
naturally wondering whether it can't be done using the familiar PHP
tools.

Any pointers, suggestions?

Thanks, Frank

BTW: Coldstore at http://sourceforge.net/projects/coldstore/ looks
pretty cool, and although it's classified as pre-alpha there, from what
I could gather elsewhere, it appears to be usable. Well, if you had a
PHP interface . . . (I can't hack C or C++, unfortunately - it gets to
be annoying, too).
  

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