Re: [school-discuss] EduML/EML/ and others

[mikee <meschman@engima.com>]

hello,

is there a single xml implementation that all major vendors
(sun, ibm, hp/compaq, microsoft, oracle and so on)
have agreed upon ?

mike eschman, etc...



On Wednesday 10 April 2002 10:24 pm, you wrote:
> > However, I would think that the demands of a Gradebook are quite well
> > taken care of by a normal SQL database. Some fields of records could be
> > encoded in XML, but generally it takes someone with talent to do this.
> > One can easily do the import/export into/from the database.
>
> Indeed, having the data in an SQL database can make
> reporting and aggregating and ... a lot simpler - the sql db
> will often do all the work for you.  That being said,
> designing the SQL database around an XML format would be a
> Good Thing(tm) IMO for data exchange between
> programs/institutions/people.