[xsl] Re: Microsoft XML

[Mark Galbreath <mgalbrea at maximgroup dot com>]

Admittedly, I am new to XML/XSL; this is from Brett McLaughlin's "Java and XML," (O'Reilly 2000):

"The Microsoft parser has been intentionally left out of this list; from all appearances, Microsoft does not now or in the future intend to conform to W3C standards.  Instead, Microsoft seems to be developing their own flavor of XML.  We have seen this before...be careful if you are forced to use Microsoft's parser" (p. 24).

Brett McLaughlin, as you probably know, has teamed up with Jason Hunter ("Java Servlet Programming" (O'Reilly 2001) and James Duncan Davidson (author of the JAXP specification) to create JDOM (now at RC-7).

As for my requirements, the client has a legacy SQLServer 7.0 databse.  The idea is to permit its web content authors to change text and graphics through an admin interface based on XML templates that are tranformed via XSLT to HTML.

Cheers!
Mark

> From: "Robert Koberg" <rob@koberg.com>
> Date: 2001/08/15 Wed AM 09:27:09 EDT
> 
> MS has no way to propriatize XML. If you are saying that Oracle has one way
> to handle XML and MS has another then you would be more accurate.
> 
> First, why do you need SQL server?  Are you going to store content as blobs
> or are you going to break apart the document for searches? What kind of
> documents? Are you sure the filesystem will not work (load the XML (or
> references to) at server startup)? This is often the best option especially
> for a pre-generated site.
> 
> Here is a free middleware solution for XML to RDB:
> http://www.rpbourret.com/xmldbms/ -- this guy (Ron Bourret) also maintains a
> long list of XML DB solutions)
> 
> There is also the Native XML DB option.  But your client probabaly already
> owns MS SQL... 


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