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On 28 Jun 2001 17:44:06 -0400, Mike.Champion@S... wrote: > Hmmm. Mr. Pascal certainly has a rhetorical style that won't win him many > friends, at least in the XML arena! He's been a relational purist since at least 1990: "It is these misconceptions that inhibit users from appreciating and demanding relational features in products. They then do not put sufficient pressure on vendors to implement them. The end result is that most PC products are either nonrelational or skimp on the support of the relational features they do implement, even though they are presented as relational to users. Consequently, users think the products are relational and, when they do not detect significant improvements, stop believing in the promises of the relational approach." (SQL and Relational Basics, M&T Books: 1990. p. 290) I learned a lot from that book (it's one of the few 11-year-olds on my computing bookshelf), and I've probably said things like that myself regarding XML, but I'm not too worried about his critique of XML as a data storage and management format. He had strong opinions then, and I'd be surprised if they changed that substantially now. Simon St.Laurent
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