Re: XML File format

[Rodrigo Moya <rmoya tsai es>]

Marzullo Laurent wrote:

> Rodrigo Moya Piernavieja wrote:
> >
> > Marzullo Laurent wrote:
> >
> >
> > You mean the libxml being used by gnome-db? or the gnome-db XML functions
> > themselves? For the first one, there should be some docs in /usr/doc/libxml-x.x.xx
> > in your system. For the gda xnl functions, sorry, but you'll have to look at the
> > sources (all functions are commented).
>
>         I was thinking of the first one ... I will see if i found the doc
>         on my systeme (Debian).
>

If you don't find it, check at developer.gnome.org, there must be some docs about this.

>
> > I don't understand very well since I don't know what you mean by domain.
>
>         Sorry,
>
>         A Domain is the type of the table field (GDA_TypeBigInt is a domain).
>         So, I've think of domain like this :
>
>                 class UserDefineDomain
>                 {
>                         GDA_TypeBigInt  toto;
>                         GDA_TypeFloat   titi;
>                 };
>
>         And then you can create a table
>
>         table table_name;
>                 field of table_name
>                         field_1 of type UserDefineDomain
>                         field_2 of type GDA_BigInt
>                         field_3 of type UserDefineDomain2
>                         ....
>
>         Is it more clear?

Yes, it's clear now. You could use the TYPE property for each field to put this
"native" type. GDA_TYPE is the GDA type, TYPE is the native type, which will be used
to, for example, generate a CREATE TABLE command from the XML file.

To add the "UserDefineDomain", we could use a special tag (<OBJECT>) to allow inclusion
of "stange" objects (such as this one for example).

Cheers