Re: Do Data Models Need to built on a Mathematical Concept?

"Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in message news:b8eg1v$1pbo$1_at_gazette.almaden.ibm.com... [snip]
> His other question "How do we support multiple views of a system while
> retaining the advantages of hierarchical structuring?", is, if you will
allow,
> being partially answer by the more sensible efforts to integrate XML with
SQL
> databases. Specifically I'm thinking of XQuery and XTables, that look much
> more respectable than you might think would come out of such an effort. (See

Opps, I missed off the link

 "XTABLES: Bridging relational technology and XML" (IBM Systems Journal 41, No. 4, 2002)
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/414/funderburk.pdf

Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services Received on Sat Apr 26 2003 - 12:38:14 CDT