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"Thomas B. Passin" wrote: > Another situation would arise if a table is a "join" table (Mike Gorman's > term is more charming, though: "intertwinkle" table). That generally means > a many-to-many relationship. The primary key for a join table is usually > compound, which leaves ID/IDRef out unless you use two of them in each > element. I like intertwinkle. Many-to-many relationships cause a special problem with nesting. When using a canonical object-relational mapping, they result in an extra element (representing the join row) between the elements corresponding to the joined rows. This element usually needs to be removed by XSLT or by smarts in the data transfer software. -- Ron
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