Re: native xml processing vs what Postgres and Oracle offer
From: Brian Selzer <brian_at_selzer-software.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:45:45 -0500
Message-ID: <eQDYk.1282$jZ1.258@flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com>
>> paul c wrote:
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>>> patrick61z_at_yahoo.com wrote:
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>> [...]
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>>>> Actually, usenet is often displayed as being hierarchical, for
>>>> instance with so called "threaded" newsreaders, because within a list
>>>> of discussions, replies to replies are often more comprehensible when
>>>> you can follow the subthreads.
>>>> ...
>>> Nobody said there's anything wrong with hierarchical displays (or
>>> hierarchical physical storage for that matter).
>>
>> [...]
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>>> As the general level of literacy continues to decline more and more of
>>> those who fail to recognize the possibility of a logical model will have
>>> to put up with that dwindling breed.
>>
>> You're evading the question.
>> ...
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:45:45 -0500
Message-ID: <eQDYk.1282$jZ1.258@flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com>
"paul c" <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac> wrote in message news:nUeXk.560$si6.520_at_edtnps83...
> rpost wrote:
>> paul c wrote:
>>
>>> patrick61z_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> Actually, usenet is often displayed as being hierarchical, for
>>>> instance with so called "threaded" newsreaders, because within a list
>>>> of discussions, replies to replies are often more comprehensible when
>>>> you can follow the subthreads.
>>>> ...
>>> Nobody said there's anything wrong with hierarchical displays (or
>>> hierarchical physical storage for that matter).
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> As the general level of literacy continues to decline more and more of
>>> those who fail to recognize the possibility of a logical model will have
>>> to put up with that dwindling breed.
>>
>> You're evading the question.
>> ...
> > What question would that be? (The original question was to do with the > best product to use to display hierarchical data. The OP planned to > invent his own forum, presumably not Usenet-based. I pointed out that he > was wrong to assume a forum is hierarchical.) >
Pardon me for sticking my nose in, Paul, but you are ignoring facts as plain as day: The content of a forum is a directed graph without any circuits--that is, a collection of trees--each message being a node and each response being a directed edge. How can you possibly argue that it is not heirarchical? Received on Sun Nov 30 2008 - 15:45:45 CST