Re: XQuery question

"Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in message news:b9g0u9$4sk0$1_at_gazette.almaden.ibm.com...
> Can I just say that the best 'temporary vessels for relational data' are
> relations.
>
> I.e. local, client side, mostly non-persistent relations in a client side
> in-memory RDBMS.
>...
> Can I also say that the best way to logically transfer relational data
from a
> server to a client is as relations.

Well, sure you can say that, but unless it's just your personal mantra perhaps you can explain what you mean? Most web applications today run through a browser that uses http and requires its information in text form. Browsers (at least IE 6) currently handle HTML and XML with SSL stylesheets and XSLT transforms. Anything else you send down that wire requires a special client application (not a browser) or a browser plugin. So which is it, are you going to replace browsers or try to be the Flash of relational database? ;-}

Bob Received on Fri May 09 2003 - 22:21:49 CEST