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On 7/19/05, Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...> wrote: > Will the addition of XML data types to relational databases help this > problem, at least for data-centric schemas? It's a bit of an force-fit, > but it seems that mixed content could be mapped to and accessed from an > XML column when the meaning of that content is a single word, even an > annotated one. If you're indexing in any way (walking a Blob or shredding) then you need some form of schema support... > > This solution won't work for data binding until programming languages > can handle XML data as a first-order type. > As I pointed out yesterday, there's more-or-less a direct mapping between XML mixed content "annotations" and Aspect oriented programming annotations. Building a mixed content data structure isn't the problem, at this point I don't see how to generally use schema driven parsing to populate such a structure. It would be straight forward populating such a beast directly via a hard coded SAX parser. The issue is, can you automate the building of the parser without some form of meta-meta description? I can't see how, and existing Schema languages don't appear to be up to the task. -- Peter Hunsberger
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