There are similarities between mongo and eXist in that they are both document orientated and work with collections of documents. The main difference is that eXist uses XML documents and mongo uses JSON documents. There’s plenty of documentation on both but from my point of view it’s quite interesting to compare them and will help […]
Category Archives: xml
XForms select using an XML Schema (XSD)
As I’m using schema based validation for my XForms (using Orbeon) I thought it would be a nice idea to generate the select options from the xsd (as well as saving some work!). As an advanced feature we can also select the value for a second select based on the value of the first. This […]
XML and relational databases
A problem I seem to keep to getting asked for help with is how to persist XML data to a relational database. (I’ve now been asked to help on at least four different projects where this has become something of an issue/blocker although strangely I’ve never actually needed to do this myself) The context of […]