Re: Argument for 1NF by counter-example

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 04:56:22 GMT
Message-ID: <VH%ed.2700$R05.510_at_attbi_s53>


"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.comREMOVE> wrote in message news:clhql7$m53$1_at_news.netins.net...
> >
> > XQuery is a bad imitation of IMS, as Pascal so exquisitely points out.
>
> I've written an extensive portfolio of IMS applications in my day and XQuery
> seems to me to be nothing like it from a language standpoint and XML has
> only minor similarities from a data model standpoint IMO.

Yes, well, he did say it was a *bad* imitation, didn't he? If it was a good imitation then it would have reminded you of it more.

Marshall Received on Mon Oct 25 2004 - 06:56:22 CEST

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