a grandiose but (hopefully) practical idea

[Richard Zander]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Croft" <jrc at ANBG.GOV.AU>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: a grandiose but (hopefully) practical idea

> I don't like Zbig, not because the idea is flawed, but because it is based
> on Z39.50, and none of my applications can use it...  now, if they were to
> go down the XML route, we could upgrade browsers and start to party...

A few details about how databases might be implemented in XML  to do much
the same as Zbig would be real interesting, Jim. Could you give us a
reference or a hint?

Richard



From:
Richard H. Zander
Curator of Botany
Buffalo Museum of Science
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