Re: XML versus Relational Database

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> Let me ask this:  is the infoSet adequate 
> for defining the features all XML systems must 
> support,

The features all XML systems (i.e. processors)
*must* support is very restrictive, and doesn't
at present even include GIs or element nesting.

*Should* support, well, who knows?  That's why
the Infoset doesn't pretend to be normative;
it's a library of names of features thought to
be generally useful.


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