Re: [Babeldoc-devel] Re: Babeldoc...

[Bruce M. <br...@mc...>]

On Friday 11 April 2003 02:38 am, Dejan Krsmanovic wrote:
> > Two points here...
> >
> > 1.  The document is serialized in both the SQL and SIMPLE journals but
>
> that is
>
> > purely an implementation details.  It is not necessary to do so.  If you
>
> know
>
> > that the document is XML then you can just write that down to the XML
> > database as is.  That is very advantageous because then you can use the
> > natural sorting / searching abilities of these databases to get at data.
>
> Maybe it would be better to have pipeline stage that writes document to XML
> database. That way you would know that your document is XML and you can
> store it as XML.

No, because then it wont be a journal implementation - it would be something 
else.   Journal access must go through the IJournal interface.