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RE: XML versus Relational Database

• From: Linda Grimaldi <grimlinda@e...>
• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>,Jonathan.Robie@S..., snowhare@n...,cclewlow@e...
• Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:18:45 -0700

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From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...]

On the other hand, we have been handling the problems

of heterogeneity and transform well without XML or

XSLT for quite some time now.  It is expensive

and one-off, but XML and XSLT only bring down

the complexity of that.  The need to negotiate,

analyse, plan, propose and resolve are still

the expensive bits and it is still noisy.   The problem

is one mans metadata IS another mans data

and the differences are what take up all the time

and profit.  You are glossing across that "semantically

equivalent" problem too easily.  Technology is not

the issue there.  Locality is.

[Linda Grimaldi]

 

Agreed that the semantic problems do not go away; however, one can argue that the data store should not complicate the semantic issue any further by imposing its own semantic notions upon the data.  A completely "context free" database is perhaps not possible, but we can get closer. 

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