Re: native xml processing vs what Postgres and Oracle offer

"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:4918b052$0$20972$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net...
> whileone wrote:
>
>> On Nov 10, 1:20 pm, paul c <toledobythe..._at_oohay.ac> wrote:
>>
>>>Forums are *not* inherently hierarchical. You can choose to present
>>>them that way, but it's not necessary and possibly misleading.
>>
>> Oy yoy yoy.
>> This thread started off by me (with a different reader, different
>> login name)
>> saying "I have a files-based forum that I WROTE that I want to convert
>> to a more database like system."
>>
>> Well, MY FORUM is hierarchical. I want to preserve that.
>
> Ordinarily, when one re-writes something from scratch, one tries to
> correct the fundamental design flaws from the first version. If you want
> to go to extra effort to perpetuate your design flaws, nobody will stop
> you.
>
> What I don't understand is why you would want to publicise the fact or
> talk about it in public.

You're a moron. Structure that is inherent to that which is being modeled can be reflected in a design but cannot be a design flaw because it isn't introduced or imposed by a designer. Received on Sun Nov 30 2008 - 22:56:17 CET