On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:57:32PM -0800, Jim Tivy wrote:
> I am not entirely hearing firm commitment that you plan to establish an RDB
> schema and make it the driving schema. In other words, what this would mean
> is that data elements cannot be put into the RDB unless they exist in the
> RDB schema.
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> Another option (from the infinite number) would be to let the XML schema
> generate the RDB schema and the mapping code.
Another is to have a column called "elementname"...
It's even worse in practice, though
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