xml-dev - Re: XML and LDAP: Common APIs?

[KenNorth <KenNorth@email.msn.com>]

<< an SQL example, if I ask

select employee_name, employee_age from employee

I don't have to know the data type >>

That's because a CREATE TABLE statement defined the types for employee_name
and employee_age. You are implicitly using those types unless you cast the
results to another type.