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Re: are native XML databases needed?

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• Subject: Re: are native XML databases needed?
• From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:21:24 -0400
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On Aug 25, 2004, at 3:26 PM, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> Lockheed Martin (texas) did it for IETMs using SGML.  It
> was a favored design for IETMs.  It wasn't efficient
> for real time use, but for dynamic assembly of a
> deliverable, it worked great.  IOW:
>
> 1.  Author parts in a parts system, typically
>     relational.
>
> 2.  Bind that into an interactive deliverable.

With everything normalized (aka "shredded") down to the level of 1 
element/attribute per column?  Back when I was dodging SGML dinosaurs 
and doing this kind of thing, the granularity was much higher.  If 
we're talking about the relational model, as opposed to pragmatic use 
of an RDBMS, I think we have to talk about normalized data.  But I 
don't want to get into this particular religious debate, shudder.  My 
point isn't that  you can't use an RDBMS as a nice metadata and CLOB 
repository for SGML/XML and write code to dynamically generate IETMs, 
but for what it's worth  I had a real epiphany when I discovered how 
much easier it was to do this with XML DBs.

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