On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Malay wrote: > > > I think some types of data are better represented by XML. For example, > > hierarchical data. Also, document-oriented data is better stored as XML. > > For example, a scientific article that has been marked up with useful > > information. Storing and indexing something like "<Author>John > > Doe</Author> used a <ScientificTechnique>microarray</ScientificTechnique> > > to do blah" would be very complicated in a relational database. > > > > XML is very good for anydata that will be parsed using software. That's > why is is most of the time an intermediate format. But XML can't be or > should not be used anything but very simplistic obeject modellling for > relational databases. I heard about UML for such things. I don't know much about object modeling, but I have also read it isn't incompatible with RDB. I guess I should find out more about object databases (don't these run on XML?). Also I guess I should learn more about XML schema. Thanks, Dan. > > Malay > _______________________________________________ > Biodevelopers mailing list > Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers >