Amazon RSS Feeds
RSS feedsare everywhere, and they are changing the Web
landscape fast. The Web is shifting from distributed freeform
database, to distributed semi-structured database.
Amazon.com RSS Feeds They never got around to it, so we set up
160+
separate RSS channels for darn near every type of product on
Amazon.com for you. If you have any feedback for this new (free)
service, please let us know immediately! We're looking to make it
an outstanding and permanent part to your collection. Enjoy! (Chris) [via Lockergnome's Bits and
Bytes]
Your Web Site is gradually becoming a database (what?). Yes,
your Web Site needs to be driven by database software that can
rapidly create RSS feeds for your organizations non XML and XML
data sources. Your web site needs to provide direct data access
to users, bots, Web Services.
Here is my blog
database for instance, you can query the XML data in this
database using XQuery, XPath, and Web Services (if I decide to
publish any of my XML Query Templates as Web Services).
Note the teaser here, each XML document is zero bytes! This is
becuase these are live Virtuoso
SQL-XML documents that are producing a variety of XML documents
on the fly, which means that they retain a high degree of
sensitivity to changes in the underlying databases supplying the
data. I could have chosen to make these persistent XML docs
with interval based synchronization with the backen data sources
(but I chose not to for maximum effect).
As you can see SQL and XML (Relational and Hierarchical Models)
engines can co-exist in a single server, ditto Object-Relational
(which might be hidden from view but could be used in the SQL that
serves the SQL-XML docs), ditto Full Text (see the search feature
of this blog) and finally, ditto directed graph model for accessing
my RDF data.(more on this as the RDF data pool increases).