• From: Dmitry Turin <dev3os@n...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:34:18 +0200

John,

JS> Your objections seem to be about collections of homogeneous documents
JS> being the unit of storage - but an XML database doesn't have to work
JS> that way.

In mentioned other way,
what is advantage of XML-database before relational database ?
What is the secret sauce (raisin in russian language) of usage of XML ?

JS> To relate things to the relational model ...
JS> to think of each document in a collection as a row in a table...
JS> [or] to think of each document as a table in a database.

Are xml-elements in documents predictable ? repeated ?
Or it's not depends of this parameter ?

JS> collections of documents ... clearly offer a superset
JS> of the functionality in the relational model

Possibility to save unique, not predicted xml-element is
single positive difference from table/attribute databases.
Obviously it's not that you implied.
So what is 'superset of functionality' in your interpretation ?

P.S.
This difference can be voided by entering auto-creating and
auto-altering of table in table/attribute databases.

JS> and are therefore capable
JS> of naturally expressing far more complex structures.

Examples, please, of these more complex structures !!
Written in xml-elements, please.



Dmitry Turin
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