On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 22:56 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:47:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Thus, an Access replacement should do all those things, but w/o > > being buggy. Certainly you could have figured that out > > Since my data is stored in XML, I can do everything and more I can do > with Access queries and reports using xsltproc to select bits and > present it. My UI component is sort of a "universal form" -- it has > checkboxes and in particular comboboxes for lookup tables. All that > stuff is done automatically. It doesn't support custom code-behind or > addins, Access has that. But mine supports replication and merging. [snip] > It's more of a workalike. I don't care if everybody else thinks it > sucks. The things it doesn't do should be done using a proper RDBMS and > a real frontend. I hope you don't think I was referring to *you* in my comments. Being a programmer, how could I insult someone else's homegrown app that does what they want? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding." Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v US (1928)
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