Re: using path notation /../../.. for hierarchy
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 00:23:24 GMT
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"henq >" <henq _ replace 0 by o <hvtijen_at_h0tmail.c0m> wrote in message news:3ee325f1$0$76753$1b62eedf_at_news.wanadoo.nl...
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> So I am curious, is my approach discussed earlier ...
It sounds like XPath.
The basic problem with what you're describing is the general trait of programmers to shoehorn non-tree datastructures into trees, possibly because trees are so easy to understand. For example, no university or even high school that I know of offers diplomas based on a simple one-to-many relationship within their course catalog. (Although perhaps I have not understood you.) This is better expressed as a many-to-many relationship. But outside of the database world, (that is, in the applications world) many-to-many relationships aren't handled that well or that regularly. I think this is the central defect of XML (well, besides the appalling syntax) and also the unimagined blind spot of many application or OO programmers.
> and what does the c.d.t.
> community think of using path notation in this manner?
I think they're going to like relations better.
One big advantage of relations over what you're describing is the fact
Marshall Received on Mon Jun 09 2003 - 02:23:24 CEST