RE: [xml-dev] storing XML files

["Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Simmonds [mailto:daves@transera.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 11:57 AM
To: xml-dev
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] storing XML files


> I honestly don't know if someone has come up with this before, so please 
> enlighten me as appropriate.  I've been given the task of mapping XML into
an 
> Access database format.  The main requirement is that the database
structure must 
> not change significantly as new previously unknown types of XML documents
are 
> added.  This requirement in place so that we can create a relatively
simple 
> client application that can count on a certain db structure.

I'll resist the tempatation to say "don't DO that, use an XML database"
:~)

You might want to look at 
http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/ins1/publications?request=abstract&key=ScKeWiWa:WEBD
B:00
(the Monet database architecture).  They claim very good results with a
generic XML -> RDBMS mapping technique that fully decomposes XML into binary
associations.

You might also look at
http://www.acm.org/sigmod/record/issues/0109/SPECIAL/jajavel3.pdf and the
references cited therein ... or perhaps other articles in the current SIGMOD
Record.