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  • To: <tblanchard@m...>,"Ken North" <ken_north@c...>
  • Subject: RE: [ANN] "Future of Software and Databases" NetSeminar (December 3)
  • From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 01:33:29 -0700
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  • Thread-topic: [ANN] "Future of Software and Databases" NetSeminar (December 3)

You are deliberately being obtuse. If there is no need for you to store XML in your business processes then you do not have to. On the other hand there are many who primarily have data stored or treated as XML for whom utilizing a database that understands XML is the right decision. 
 
PS: Where in the W3C XML 1.0 recommendation is there terminology that limits it to being an "interchange" format. 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: tblanchard@m... [mailto:tblanchard@m...] 
	Sent: Sat 10/26/2002 1:23 AM 
	To: Ken North 
	Cc: xml-dev@l... 
	Subject: Re:  [ANN] "Future of Software and Databases" NetSeminar (December 3)
	
	

	If XML is an "interchange" format - then why am I storing it?  Why
	don't I convert it to my format (which I designed because it is
	convenient where the XML "interchange" format is not).  Does this even
	make sense?  I don't think it does.
	
	On Saturday, October 26, 2002, at 06:57  AM, Ken North wrote:
	> Think of a database as a container for all types of data -- enabling
	> you to run
	> powerful queries.
	> If databases can store audio, images, video, text and biometric data,
	> why should
	> XML be a "can of worms".
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