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RE: RE: XML Technologies: Progress via Simplification or Co mp


advantages of erds
We do it for some things.  As one if forced to support more 
and different target hosting environments, one does it more.
For example, we do:   

1.  XML model of metadata of databases.  Then generate the 
scripts to create tables for different database vendors. 
This has some definite advantages.

2.  Use metadata collectors (just a db) that gets metadata 
from the application plus human annotation interface.  Then 
generate ERDs for customers that like these with all the 
usual web page navigation and popup magic using a combination 
of script, HTML and VML.  Very popular item it turns out. 
Intelligence aside, a report is a report is a report.

I could make the second one a web service but there is no 
point really.  There is nothing inherently dynamic or 
frequent about them.  Just push the button for every 
version of the product after the metadatabase is updated, 
and generate all of the little mini-apps.  Old school.

len


From: Hunsberger, Peter [mailto:Peter.Hunsberger@S...]

It's an after the fact rationalization, but; that's seems partly why we
have a metadata model that's not coded directly in XML: you want to be
free to produce multiple model representations as needed...

> Anyway, from the answers, I see that yes indeed we are far 
> away from it...

Sigh, ain't it the truth!

Peter Hunsberger

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