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And that makes sense. I have this mental image of a 2D table pasted to a wall and each cell map to a brick. If you walk behind the wall, you see little trees growing behind some of the bricks. Use the relational index to find the tree in the forest. Use XPath or XQuery to walk the tree fetch a leaf or saw off a branch. Thanks Ron. len From: Ronald Bourret [mailto:rpbourret@r...] Another way to think about all of this is that the XML data type is the exposed tip of a native XML database embedded inside a relational database. Clear as mud? -- Ron Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > I don't understand this nearly well enough. In a > relational database, what are the characteristics > of an "XML type"? ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php>
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