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This is a fine application for XML. As several people have pointed out, schema extensions would be rather helpful for defining how to express relational-style joins. Sudarshan Purohit [sudar@p...], rightfully pointed out that XML-Data has facilities for this. Look at http://www.microsoft.com/standards/xml/xmldata.htm#References. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Murray-Rust [SMTP:peter@u...] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 4:11 AM To: xml-dev@i... Subject: Relational Tables and structured documents I have been spending the last two weeks working on a molecular application which essentially consists of relational tables. The application is largely hierarchical (a protein molecule) so that it benefits from being recast into structured document form. I have therefore found it useful to create routines which generate nodes in a tree as a result of joining tables. I expect this is a common operation (e.g. creation of orgCharts from relational tables). XML would seem to provide a useful approach, especially client-side (most humans don't read relational tables very well). Excuse my ignorance, but is this a sufficiently generic application that there are well-understood rules for it and is there scope for a generic XML approach? P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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