markw wrote:
: [...] Actually I have been thinking about a couple projects I have
: done. Vendors like to think XML is a way to distribute databases.
I would find it very helpful to see a table of what sorts of XML
functionality each major vendor supports.
: So a parser that can scan a DTD and make a usable create table (...)
: line would be very helpful. [...]
Hmm, but hierarchically structured documents such as XML don't map
well to a relational model. The former tend to be recursive (e.g.,
have more levels of containment than the one or two that might be
mappable to tables and columns.)
: During a database export, a SQL table could be used to create a DTD.
: [...]
This mapping (relational model -> XML) is more straightforward.
- FChE