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> My particular interest is related to some work I'm currently > engaged in. The basics are we receive XML messages from an > external trading partner and process those messages, > enriching and routing to a number of internal subscriber > applications. One of these applications is MI and the deal > here is that they want the data to been put into a relational > database so that they can create a number of interfaces > 'files' which are sent to still more applications. > > Whilst I would like to consider a pure XML database or even > use some of the XML features that are increasingly prevalent > in mainstream DB vendor products, clearly putting data into a > 'staging' database is one thing, but the capabilities and > competances of the applications and application programmers > who want to retrieve it is a key factor. So, for the > immediate term I might be stuck (if thats fair - probably > not) with relational. If the XML is just a CSV file, then by all means shove it into a table in a relational database. If it's anything more complicated, don't even think about shredding it by hand: it will be a nightmare. Especially if you have doubts about the intellectual capabilities of the programmers who are going to have to deal with it. Regards, Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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