4/29/2002 9:54:07 AM, "Manos Batsis" <> wrote:
>
>> XML is pretty good for tables, but not so good
>> for enforcing relational normalization rules.
>
>Of course. Enforcing relational normalization rules shuts down most good
>reasons to use XML in the first place.
Exactly! That's a great description of the relationship
between XML and RDBMS. XML bundles inter-related data into a single
package, the relational model normalizes it into tuples that can be
inter-related in all sorts of ways. Of course, these are the "pure"
textbook cases, and there is an awful lot of fuzzy overlap in the middle.
