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Re: Question for updating existing XML file

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• Subject: Re: Question for updating existing XML file
• From: Andrei Boyanov <andrei@a...>
• Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:35:49 +0300
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Hi, all,

Jim Rankin wrote:

> 
> 
> On Jul 26, 2004, at 7:40 PM, Owen Walcher wrote:
> 
>     I am just saying, regardless of the schema of the XML (an industry
>     standard
>     interchange or internal structures) why not leave it in XML? Why always
>     some other storage mechanism that either disassembles the XML or makes
>     querying, updating and deleting in place nearly impossible?
> 
> This is somewhat of a perma-thread on this list. XML is inherently 
> hierarchical, so a "pure" XML database will probably be hierarchical, too.
> 
> At one time hierarchical and relational databases were competing 
> technologies, but overall the relational model, and relational 
> databases, won out. The relational model is now more developed and 
> generally accepted to be superior to the hierarchical model for most 
> uses. (Please correct me if I'm wrong or oversimplifying here.)
> 
> So the best way to frame your question is "Does a hierarchical model or 
> a relational model best solve my business problem?" If the answer is 
> hierarchical, it probably makes sense to always store your documents as 
> XML and query/update/insert in-place. If the answer is relational, it 
> may make more sense to store your data relationally and only 
> consume/create XML at the system's boundaries.

If the business problem is a set of big documents containing a lot of 
(common)structured data (somewhere in unstructured text) the use of a 
good native XML database management system may be incomparable to any 
other solution.

Issues like synchronization, access control, data locking and other are 
best addressed in this manner I think. Any relational solution is either 
inapplicable or unreasonable. Standalone xml files aren't good solution too.

-- 
Andrei Boyanov
CEO of Active Solutions Ltd.
http://activesolutions.bg; http://andrei.activesolutions.bg

• References:
  • RE: Question for updating existing XML file
    • From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
  • Re: Question for updating existing XML file
    • From: "Owen Walcher" <xpriori@o...>
  • Re: Question for updating existing XML file
    • From: Jim Rankin <jimbokun_lists@m...>

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