[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : (snip)
It is not convincing to look at an XML file alone. Let me give you an example. Glade is a GTK+ application for creating GTK+ GUI. It generates an XML file, that can be loaded in every programming language that has libglade binding. Similarly, there could be a database design tool to create a database, and save SQL/DML expressions into an XML config file.
Why so ? What's wrong with a plain SQL file ? We already have a language for RDBMS schema description, and the schema description is itself stored in the RDBMS catalog so the SQL description can be regenerated from the RDBMS. I just don't see the point of storing all this in XML.
Then you create the RDB command objects by loading the XML in your favourite language. I think programming languages are intended for describing neither relational databases nor GUIs.
SQLAlchemy is an interesting attempt at integrating the relational model in a programming language.
Ok, I don't mean neither of us is necessarily right and the other wrong - different POV, mostly, so I guess we can at least agree to disagree !-)
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