[Dare Obasanjo]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:37 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XML information modeling best practices
>
> There's a lot more reading than writing going on in xml-ized
> data. Look at XQuery, which isn't ready to deal with updates
> and deletes and won't be for who knows how long.
>
I don't consider the choices made by the XQuery Working Group on how
they prioritized features for XQuery to be indicators of how XML is used
in the real world. I'd say it's more likely 50/50 for read/write versus
mainly read scenarios for usage of XML in practice.
[Tom P]
It's a hard thing to know across all the diversity. I have the impression
that wholesale replacement of data (as in individual xml files) is rather
more common than updates within a file. It's the updates and deletes within
one body of data that tend to cause the most problems for data integrity.
Either way, good modeling is very important for maintenance and for
communicating the data design.
Cheers,
Tom P
