Along these lines, this may be of interest. http://www.w3.org/XML/RDB.html David Lapointe Manager - Research Computing Services UMass Medical School Worcester, MA 01655 508/856-5141 > -----Original Message----- > From: J.W. Bizzaro [mailto:bizzaro at bc.edu] > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 12:14 PM > To: pipet-devel > Subject: [Pipet Devel] dbXML > > > Locians, > > I found an announcement for the dbXML project at Freshmeat. > This appears to be > what we were discussing a short while ago: If we're using all > XML for our data, > why not use an XML-based database? Well, we weren't aware of > any at the time. > Here's the announcement (Justin, is this guy related to you?): > > dbXML project now online > Tom Bradford - July 22nd 1999, 04:55 EST > > The dbXML project is a development effort with the ultimate goal of > producing a high-performance client/server DBMS for XML-based > structured documents. Overall, the theory is that you > could speed up > database retrieval incredibly if you did not have to join tables > constantly to retrieve structured data. So many programs > are written > to import and export tabular query results to and from XML that it > seems like somewhat of a useless step. Why not just store entire > structured documents as single entities and retrieve whole > or partial > documents with simple SQL queries? This is the goal of the dbXML > project. The project is only a little more than one week old and is > actively looking for talented volunteer contributors. > http://www.dbxml.org They are looking for help. Maybe we can kill two birds with one stone here. :-) Jeff -- +------------------------------------+ | | | J.W. Bizzaro | | jeff at bioinformatics.org | | | | THE OPEN COLLABORATORY | | FOR MOLECULAR BIOINFORMATICS | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | | | +------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ pipet-devel maillist - pipet-devel at bioinformatics.org http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/pipet-devel