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MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development

You're reading from   MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development Extend MySQL to suit your needs with this unique guide into the world of MySQL plugins

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849510608
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Compiling and Using MySQL Plugins 2. User Defined Functions FREE CHAPTER 3. Daemon Plugins 4. Information Schema Plugins 5. Advanced Information Schema Plugins 6. Full-text Parser Plugins 7. Practical Full-text Parsers 8. Storage Engine Plugins 9. HTML Storage Engine—Reads and Writes 10. TOCAB Storage Engine — Implementing Indexes Beyond MySQL 5.1

An idea of the HTML engine


Ever thought about what your tables might look like? Why not represent a table as a<TABLE>? You would be able to see it, visually, in any browser. Sounds cool. But how could we make it work?

We want a simple engine, not an all-purpose Swiss Army Knife HTML-to-SQL converter, which means we will not need any existing universal HTML or XML parsers, but can rely on a fixed file format. For example, something like this:

<html><head><title>t1</title></head><body><table border=1>
<tr><th>col1</th><th>other col</th><th>more cols</th></tr>
<tr><td>data</td><td>more data</td><td>more data</td></tr>
<!-- this row was deleted ... -->
<tr><td>data</td><td>more data</td><td>more data</td></tr>

... and so on ...

</table></body></html>

But even then this engine is way...

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