Re: Database design for CDIndex

Greg Stein (gstein nospam at lyra.org)
Tue, 09 Mar 1999 12:33:12 -0800

[copying the cdin mailing list since it has an archive for future
readers]

Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> ...
> Actually, XML might be a good idea for all of the communication done -- both
> from server to server for data replication and server to client for query
> results. It would allow for easy omission of unrelated data or future
> expansion of the protocol (clients could interpret a lot of the data by
> themselves by just throwing unrecognized information into a listbox or

Absolutely.

I developed a preliminary specification and working code based on HTTP
and XML. You can find the information at http://www.cdin.org/.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/