Posted by Manuel Lemos on 04/27/05 17:16

Hello,

on 04/27/2005 10:04 AM Nsk said the following:
> I am developing a PHP-implemented library which would allow a PHP programmer
> to write pre-defined data to a database. The library would be able to work
> with different database schemas and I need a way to "inform" the library with
> what kind of database schema it has to work with. I thought a good way to do
> that would be to describe the database schemas in XML.
>
> Because I don't want to write a new DTD just for this application, do you have
> any idea whether a database schema definition DTD already exists which allows
> XML documents to describe how a database is structured?

That is an old idea introduced by Metabase in 1999:

http://www.phpclasses.org/metabase


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Manuel Lemos

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