On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Christopher Browne wrote: > No, "tables" wouldn't be the right way to do it. > > But it's going to be troubled, in any case, because of the > every-popular mixtures of: > > a) Often weird declarations of what character sets are in use; I gotta admit that I haven't spend too much attention on that specific part. But couln't you just store it in the character set that was originally used to populate the document?
> b) Pointers to other parts of a document; do you mean to the parent element and the child elements? This is specifially what my custom format is designed for. > c) What's a "database" going to consist of? One XML document? Or > many? many, each of which can be up to about 1TB > And if many, then then how do you have a centralized > reference point to navigate from to find the document that you > want? This one could be a table, or another xml document. > And "navigate" was a carefully chosen word; what you then have is > essentially a network database system, and have to then start making > up ways of describing queries. XQuery may be better than CODASYL of > yesteryear, but you're still left writing a lot of recursive code. > (Thus making those that understand the Lambda Nature more powerful...) I don't get your point? XQuery works on one document, IIRC. > At the end, do you have a "database?" Or just a set of documents? > It's hard to tell, a priori. OK, know waht you mean. I'd say it's a database, because the information is stored not plain - but in pages and in an optimized format for insertion, deletion and querying. > And do you think this is likely to be useful because: > > a) You have some clear notion as to why this ought to be useful? yes. Modyfing and querying plain xml files sucks performancewise once your documents get a little larger (100 MB+) > b) XML is a big buzzword, and people have been able to succesfully > attract "research funds" or "vulture capital" on the basis of > having that acronym in a proposal? That time's over anyways, isn't it? -- Gregor Zeitlinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org