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Jaskaran, Could you be confusing triggers with referential integrity? XSLT does look a lot like triggers, as the templates are "triggered" when the element is encountered in the input stream. But it is not like a database trigger. By the time XSLT is processing the XML, the input stream has already created and the XSLT code is really transforming it. The difference is one of timing. XSLT can be used to check referential integrity. For example, if you have an element with an attribute which should exist as an attribute in another location of the XML stream, XSLT can help you confirm that existence of that referenced attribute value. However, this again is a post XML file creation check. The point here is: XSLT processing is performed on an already created XML file. It can help you transform that file or check that file's format, but only after the file has been created. For a more creation time referential integrity support, I would suggest you look at XML Schemas. Schemas include the ability to define referential integrity style information in the data definition language, rather than as a post processing language. Steve -----Original Message----- From: karan bhasin [mailto:jusky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 3:20 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: triggers in XML I am working on a project to ensure the database integrity constraints on XML files. I would like to know the answer to following questions 1) why triggers are an issue in the traditional database systems and considered to circumvent the database integrity. 2) is there a poosible way to implement triggers for XML files If anyone has any answers or suggestions for this, please do reply back. Thanks Jaskaran ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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