Hi Stefano, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> Hi, > > while the world of native XML databases is full of marketing hype and > promises, it is evident (for all those who tried) that mapping general > XML schemas to relational databases can be sometimes very painful and > not very efficient. > > In fact, it is widely recognized from the database research community > that while well structured can be easily and efficiently mapped to a > relational database, less structured (often called semi-structured) data > is much more difficult to map. > Just for fun and also to take a step backward and evaluate the changes and invariants in our perception of XML systems, I couldn't resist reading some old emails exchanged two years ago! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xml-server/message/32 Enjoy :) Eric -- Rendez-vous à Paris pour le Forum XML. http://www.technoforum.fr/Pages/forumXML01/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com http://xsltunit.org http://4xt.org http://examplotron.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
