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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Mixed content in data-binding (Was: Re: Inte
 Will the addition of XML data types to relational databases help this problem, at least for data-centric schemas? It's a bit of an force-fit, but it seems that mixed content could be mapped to and accessed from an XML column when the meaning of that content is a single word, even an annotated one. This solution won't work for data binding until programming languages can handle XML data as a first-order type. -- Ron Rick Jelliffe wrote: >>I am having a hard time accepting the case for mixed content, especially >>based on the arguments I have seen. > > > One important reason is internationalization. > > Japanese, in particular, has too many homophones and variant readings > to make either syllabically-spelled words or ideographically-written > characters completely satisfactory. The common "writing-on-the-hand- > when-ralking" behaviour that strikes foreigners in Japan is evidence > of this. > > To overcome this, Japanese have adopted a system of annotated writing, > which we can call Ruby (after the 4? point characters.) These allow > ideagraphs (whose meaning may be readable but pronunciation unclear) > to be coupled with their phonetic spelling. Or to allow contractions > to be spelled out, or even little translations of unusual foreign words > or names to be given in the text. > > Similar annotations are also used by Taiwanese with the bopomofo > syllabary used for teaching children and with rare ideographs. > > One of the promises of XML over 3rd normal form data is therefore > that mixed content provides a way for Japanese people (etc) to use their > traditional Japanese solution (ruby annotations) and overcome the > alphabet-centricism of RBDBS and third normal form. > > Some internationalization people even go as far as saying that *all* > text in a schema intended for international use should be mixed > content. I.e. that XML's string type should be the exception, to be > used only when the pattern facet is used to disallow Han ideagraphs. > > Obviously, this can freak out RDBMS people. But why should East Asians > settle for text in databases being less comprehensible than text in > free text, in ways that alphabetic scripts are not? > > Cheers > Rick Jelliffe > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > > > 
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