> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: Lars Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skickat: den 3 november 2000 20:53 > Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ämne: Re: SV: First reflections > > > Hi. > > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:40:30 +0200 > Gannholm Torbj_rn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I feel I must clarify my position on the conceptual > equivalence of a node > > and a field (or a row, or whatever). > > Please note that I think the node and the xml-database is a > better way > > because it is more flexible with less trouble, but the fact > is that we > > sometimes encode metadata in a field, for example the > single text-field > > "contact" could be encoded as "type;value" like "phone;+46 > 920 259677" or > > "email;[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which would then have to be > > programatically split at those rare times when we need just > the one value. > > > > So I still hold that as a user it is possible to view my > data in whatever > > way is more convenient for me. (Perhaps it is even my right?). > > > > Also this nice term metadata is in an xml-document just > placed in a node > > like everything else, sometimes in an attribute-node, sometimes in a > > text-node. There is nothing that forces me to place > metadata in an attribute > > and "real" data in a "real" node, sometimes the mere > presence of a node IS > > my data. > > Honestly, I don't understand your problem/question! Is your > question something > like: > > Why use XML/XML-Database if we can do (more or less) > the same with > SQL/RDBMS? > > If so, this would end in a very general discussion. And I'm > not sure if this > list would be the right place for such discussions. > > Lars > --
I am not posing a question, the point I am trying to make is that if you are making an update-format (or even a query-format) it should be based entirely on the xml-view (documents and XSLT). If, as I have seen some suggest in the archives, you want to do something more like SQL, then you should do straight SQL and nothing else. SQL is a real pain, but at least we are used to it. But please don't transfer its strangeness into an xml-like format. Tobe ------------------------------------------------------------------ Post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] adminstrator: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Read archived messages: http://archive.xmldb.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------
