Re: Pizza Example

"Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message news:szYcc.63528$0k2.3934256_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> 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?
>
> -- Jan Hidders

Please point me to what you see as the state of the art in modeling for XML. thanks! --dawn Received on Wed Apr 07 2004 - 23:15:02 CEST