Re: [seul-edu] Consolidated gradebook effort

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

David C. Moore wrote:
> 
> I agree with this completely.  In fact, I think we ought to be extremely
> careful in designing the architecture for this.[...]  In order for EduML
> to achieve it's potential, we not only need to define a specificiation for
> storing the information, but we also need to specify how the data is to be
> interchanged.
> 
> Thus, the
> gradebook needs to do more than just open an XML file and parse it into
> internal data structures using libxml.  Multiple applications need to be
> able to work with the same database simultaneously, and changes needed to
> applied consistently.
> 
> I've looked around on the web, searching for work already done in this
> area, and it seems like there is progress.  XQL (XML Query Language) and
> XML-QL are query languages designed to query information from an XML
> document (database).  However, I have not seen any indication of the
> ability to do insert/delete/replace operations on an XML document.  This
> would be necessary if we were to access an XML document as a database in
> a platform and language portable way.
> 
Take a look at XDBM <http://www.bowerbird.com.au/XDBM/>.  It may be what
you're looking for.

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