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• Subject: RE: A standard approach to glueing together reusableXML fragments in prose?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:30:11 -0400
• In-reply-to: <000c01c36b3c$a5d55fe0$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

michael.h.kay@n... (Michael Kay) writes:
>> I am saying I have not seen a proof that XML supports, or can 
>> be engineered to support, the Relational Model.
>
>Of course XML doesn't support the relational model. The relational
>model consists of structures and operations on those structures; XML
>doesn't define any operations on its structures.

You know, I say things like that, and people tell me I'm "grinding
water". 

http://www.dbazine.com/pascal13.shtml

Oh well.

Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com
http://monasticxml.org

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