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Re: The spirit of XML (was RE: Re: I can XInclude wh

• To: "Evan Lenz" <evan@e...>
• Subject: Re: The spirit of XML (was RE: Re: I can XInclude where I [expletive deleted] wantto)
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 13:07:55 -0600
• Cc: uche.ogbuji@f..., "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: Message from "Evan Lenz" <evan@e...> of "Wed, 01 May 2002 14:50:59 PDT." <NDBBLMPNADEOOKGELJALMEAECJAA.evan@e...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> > Of course, it's not just a matter of parsers, eh?  I know the
> > basis of TransQuery is that one can have the XML database look
> > sort of like an oversized EPE whereas each top-level node
> > represents a separate document in the database, right?
> 
> That was one idea, but things like IDs and base URIs that require document
> identity to be maintained forced me to stick with viewing the XML database
> as a simple node-set containing only root nodes.

Good point about IDs, but base URIs needn't have been a problem.  XPath provides for each node to have its own distinct base URI, to the XML DBMS could simply assign top-level node base URIs according to their path within the repository.

And I'm not sure how your solution fixes the ID problem.  Isn't there still scope for inconsistency if IDs clash across documents?


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