Path: text.usenetserver.com!out03a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.aset.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!elk.ncren.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!News.Dal.Ca!ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Bob Badour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: What is the logic of storing XML in a Database? References: <1174947342.905208.135110@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <1175008255.462166.216200@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1175016883.695931.244910@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <1175023534.762441.188210@y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:45:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.176.57.137 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net X-Trace: ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca 1175024759 142.176.57.137 (Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:45:59 ADT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:45:59 ADT Organization: Business Internet Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.theory:163790 X-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:46:00 EST (text.usenetserver.com) David Cressey wrote: > "Daniel" wrote in message > news:1175023534.762441.188210@y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > >>On Mar 27, 1:34 pm, "Aloha Kakuikanu" >>wrote: >> >>>On Mar 27, 8:10 am, "Daniel" wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Standardized XML transport formats are commonly used for representing >>>>messages. >>> >>>If "transport" and "messages" are merely implementation details of >>>some distributed database application, >> >>But of course they're not, they have nothing really to do with >>distributed database application, nor is it desirable that they >>should. Consequently they have nothing really to do with dbms theory. > > There are three things you can do with data: process it, store it, and > transport it. > These three are all interrelated. That seems so limiting like having an emotional vocabulary of happy, sad and angry. With data, one can: misinterpret it, corrupt it, ignore it, discover it, lose it, find it, buy it, sell it, steal it, protect it, waste it, discuss it, manage it etc.