Hi Larry, I'm trying to figure out what your wanting to do with the data once its in mysql? At first it seemed you didn't want to put it in as a lob because you might want to query on the data in different ways (kind of an assumption on my part, but a common reason to do this). Then, you thought about making a very generic schema (parent-node) which really doesn't lend itself well to this goal.
Could you explain what you plan to do with the data in mysql and maybe a little about the goal of the application? Is this app specific to this data, or are you looking to build an app that can take any schema defined XML file, ingest it, and allow you to do some work with it? Why is a lob not appropriate for your needs? S On Nov 22, 2013 7:24 AM, "Larry Martell" <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a need to store data that comes in an XML file in MySQL. I don't > want to store the entire file as a CBLOB, and it doesn't lend itself to > loading with Load XML. I am looking for tools that will help me create the > schema and parse and load the data. I have googled for this and I've found > many scholarly papers written about it, but the examples are always with > very simple XML files, and I haven't found any tools. I do have the xsd > schema for the XML file, but what's confusing me about how to design the > RDB schema is the unbounded recursion of the data. The data is basically > nodes that have parameters which have items with values. My first thought > was to simply have a node table and a parameter table with a foreign key > back to the node it belongs to. But when digging into the data I found that > nodes can have sub nodes - in one file I have this goes down for 7 levels, > but in theory there is no bound on that. I'm now sure how to best represent > that. > > Any experiences, advice, or pointers are very welcome. > > Thanks- > larry >
