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Stephen Williams writes: > Or an RDF database. You do realize that SQL and XML databases will be > subsumed by RDF databases and data models shortly, right? Are you suggesting that RDF is a good language for writing a technical report? Have you tried re-expressing the contents of your XHTML documents in RDF? One of the really important things that XML databases do is to give you really first class support for such XML >documents<. I'm not saying you can't express such things in RDF in principle, but there are no widely deployed conventions for doing it conveniently. RDF is currently OK for carrying the metadata about a document (who wrote it, when, etc.), but much less good for reprsenting the text of the documents, what XML conveys as mixed content markup, etc. Document databases are an extraordinarily important application of XML databases, one for which I con't expect either relational or RDF to do as well anytime soon. Nah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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