Martijn,

>> I have given you an example at the beginning of this
>> now-rather-religious thread: often you need to store a document as a
>> whole, and secure it (with a digital signature, for example). It is
>> very unconvenient to sign it if it's scattered into many relational
>> pieces. So you need to store it as an atom, sign it as such, and still
>> be able to query its parts. That's what document-centric or
>> document-centered storage is about. Thomas gave some good pointers
>> about the current of the art.

MT> Can't you store it, sign it and take it apart for querying?

this is going in circles. I have already replied to this, so go back
to square one. ;-)

Ciao
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Nando Dessena
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