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kyberfabrikken
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Do you know about Xindice ?
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Hey kyber, great to see you in these forums. Do you know anyone who has used the XML-RPC API to interface PHP to Xindice?
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arborint wrote:Do you know anyone who has used the XML-RPC API to interface PHP to Xindice?
Honestly no. I toyed with it a bit some time back, but I'm not entirely sure about the practical use of it.

The reason I mentioned it is, that jQuery works on the DOM, which is hierarchical, untyped data. This makes perfectly sense in a HTML document, but the data of most PHP applications is structured, tabular data; This is much better managed with an RDBMS, and SQL is the only sane tool for manipulation one such. There are times though, where -- in addition to the tabular data -- you need hierarchical data. So perhaps a more useful effort could be to build a generic, database persisted, tree, with full DOM, XPath (And perhaps even XQuery) support? I don't think one exists?
arborint wrote:Hey kyber, great to see you in these forums.
Yay, thought I would pop on in.
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Thanks kyber - I was originally looking at XMLDBs, tried to write my own over top of MySQL (which was mediocre at best) and eventually settled on this idea for it's richer "object-ness".
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