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RE: XML-enabled databases, XQuery APIs

• To: "'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <len.bullard@i...>,"'Michael Rys'" <mrys@m...>,"'Ronald Bourret'" <rpbourret@r...>
• Subject: RE: XML-enabled databases, XQuery APIs
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:33:08 +0100
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> 
> What would be the consequences to XML datatypes in relational 
> databases should an XML binary standard be created?
> 

None, I would have thought. I wouldn't expect an RDB to represent XML data
internally using either the standard ("XML") serialization or any standard
binary serialization, I would expect it to use its own internal
representation. Thus the fact that there's more than one standardized
external representation shouldn't matter one iota: provided of course that
the representations are truly equivalent.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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