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Robie: > '"In many development environments, people have to work with relational > data, XML and data found in objects. These have three very different data > models -- three very different ways of representing and manipulating data," I disagree with this classification - i think XML as a data representation is extremely compatible with the object-oriented model and i don't see the two as that different at all. Conflicts emerge when you use strictly typed languages with no native XML support and very limited tree-handling support to process data that isn't necessarily typed, isn't necessarily structurally static and isn't (if it's half-decent XML) flat. Object-oriented XML is very possible, as proven by o:XML and i think that others will follow ([1] and [2]). Relational db's on the other hand - well no-one likes them, but we all seem to need them. So let's make data mappings as painless as possible, and that's where XQuery really fits in. [1] http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-998361.html Programming for the 21st century - o:XML [2] http://www.o-xml.org /m Martin Klang http://www.o-xml.org - the object-oriented XML programming language
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