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Simplify Apps Using XML With PHP and DB2

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the jewels-of-web-knowledge dept.

An anonymous reader writes "IBM DeveloperWorks has an article from a little while back that takes a look at the impact of schema evolution on the application. The narrative walks the reader through a usage scenario to illustrate the ease of setting up a PHP environment and integrating DB2 native XML functionality with PHP applications including web services written in PHP and XQuery."

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  1. XML is not the answer. It's not even the question. by YA_Python_dev · · Score: 3, Interesting
    XML is not the answer. It is not even the question. To paraphrase Jamie Zawinski on regular expressions, "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use XML." Now they have two problems."
    -- Phillip J. Eby

    Granted, he was talking about Python, not PHP... but still...

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  2. Re:summary of article by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Codd is rolling in his grave. 30+ years since he developed the relational model, and still nobody's bothered implementing it.

    The database admins might argue that it's a moot point, given that relational databases are fairly close to the relational model. The concepts are at any rate, related to one another. Not quite isomorphic, but close enough for most purposes.

    In fact, it could be argued that to fully implement the relational model would intoduce too much complexity to the fairly simple SQL sysetm, which has served many a programmer well over the years.

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