Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
> "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:Zu6dnaUbd6g7Ze7dRVn-sQ_at_comcast.com...
>>
>>Perhaps what would be useful would be a theory of normalization that
>>formalizes the way PICK developers model data, the way the relational
>>normal forms formalize some of relational modeling. [...]
>>
>>Is there such a theory?
>
> I have asked around and it seems there hasn't been such a theory, so I have
> been working to gain enough background to do such a write-up.
How would that be different from normalization theory for nested
relations? That has already been around for a while, and the theory for
XML is also already well underway. What do you intend to add to that?
Received on Wed Apr 07 2004 - 14:24:08 CDT
