Re: Do Data Models Need to built on a Mathematical Concept?
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:38:14 +0100
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"Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in message
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[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)
Regards
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/414/funderburk.pdf
Paul Vernon