> > Don’t blame the database people that they don’t “get” XML. On one hand, it > has never been explained > to them properly. >
Long before XML (about 1990, I think) I submitted a VLDB paper about a database/repository holding software engineering artifacts whose structure/schema was defined in BNF. Two of the reviewers gave it 9/10, two of them gave it 2/10. So yes: the traditional database research community, of whom Stonebraker was for many years the high priest, has problems understanding data outside their traditional customer/orders/suppliers domain. Michael Kay Saxonica _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
