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> I think unifying relational data and XML is a good move. Unifying it would be. It's mixing it without unifying it that's the problem. > Imagine that an organization has data in RDBMS, as well in > the XML form. That organization needs to produce something > (for e.g. reports of some kind, or say an application) by > unifying information from the relational and XML world. Then > we need to join data stored in the RDBMS and XML. If we don't > have a unified relational/XML store, I think, it'll be > slightly difficult to join data from the two worlds (although > not difficult for good application programmers). It's like mixed-language programming. It's useful to be able to do it, but you make life much easier for yourself if you can find a way to avoid it. Sometimes that means being bold about refactoring your systems, and these days I tend to reckon that effort spent on refactoring nearly always has a positive payback. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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