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Re: ZDNet Schema article, and hiding complexity within user-friendlyproducts
- From: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
- To: Michael Champion <mike.champion@softwareag-usa.com>,xml-dev <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:22:34 -0400
At 02:05 PM 4/23/2001 -0400, Michael Champion wrote:
>Anyone want to pick up the thread ... is something like W3C XML Schema a
>"good thing" after all if it can be wrapped up in user-friendly tools? Or is
>its "power" (aka "complexity") too great to fully encapsulate inside a
>friendly interface?
How friendly is the SQL spec? Access puts a reasonably friendly face on it,
or you can left outer join to your heart's content by hand using a command
line interface.
SQL is certainly powerful and complex -- and both easy and difficult to use
well.
Schema is likely to be the same (and the analogy toward database-land isn't
by accident, of course)
Ann