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[Ian Davis] > On Friday, 25 April 2003 at 01:54, Dare Obasanjo wrote: > > Or he could just define a mapping between the input XML and his > > relational tables using a number of XML mapping technologies that target > > his database of choice. For instance if he was a user Microsoft's SQL > > Server 2000 this could easily be handled by SQLXML > > (http://msdn.microsoft.com/sqlxml). > This is the point of the article though: every different schema has a > different mapping which is fine until they start being refined and > refactored over time. Schema mapping works well for static xml, but > isn't suited to extensible, modular xml. > RDF can be a good mapping mechanism, but the mapping itself has the same benefits and issues no matter whether you use RDF, Topic maps, or some home-grown mapping method possibly using xml. Using a standard can give you some advantages - standard tools and the possibility that someone else can use your mapping - but does not really change the essential task. Cheers, Tom P
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