Everything about XQuery and stuff like that is weak...

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:)


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - the developer tool for InterBase & Firebird
Upscene Productions
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See you at the First European Firebird Conference in May in Fulda, Germany
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> A very strange article about xml "databases"
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134390,00.html
>
> "The W3C recommends XML for structuring data, and the task of making XML

behave more like a relational database falls to the organisation's XML Query
working group."

>
> What do they mean by "behave" like a relational database ?
> It's relational or NOT,just keep it simple .
>
> "The XML Query working group has been putting together a framework of

documents that provide the technical answer to that question, so that XML
documents can start to look like parts of one massive database."

>
> The crazyness continue, the documents start looking like a huge "database"

.(I may be cynical and say that : they start looking like a huge tree
database, or a large document at best). The foundation is very weak indeed .