Michael Kay wrote:
>> I think unifying relational data and XML is a good move.
>>
>
> Unifying it would be. It's mixing it without unifying it that's the problem.
>
Hmmm, like when you have a C++ program using ODBC, using escapes to get
SQL strings to fit into C++, and that SQL contains SQL/XML extensions
that look rather different from conventional SQL, and those SQL/XML
extensions contain XQueries, with appropriate escaping so it doesn't
confuse the SQL interpreter?
I agree with you that a pure XML environment really is a lot easier ....
Jonathan
