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On Aug 25, 2004, at 3:26 PM, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Lockheed Martin (texas) did it for IETMs using SGML. It
> was a favored design for IETMs. It wasn't efficient
> for real time use, but for dynamic assembly of a
> deliverable, it worked great. IOW:
>
> 1. Author parts in a parts system, typically
> relational.
>
> 2. Bind that into an interactive deliverable.
With everything normalized (aka "shredded") down to the level of 1
element/attribute per column? Back when I was dodging SGML dinosaurs
and doing this kind of thing, the granularity was much higher. If
we're talking about the relational model, as opposed to pragmatic use
of an RDBMS, I think we have to talk about normalized data. But I
don't want to get into this particular religious debate, shudder. My
point isn't that you can't use an RDBMS as a nice metadata and CLOB
repository for SGML/XML and write code to dynamically generate IETMs,
but for what it's worth I had a real epiphany when I discovered how
much easier it was to do this with XML DBs.
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