No Ken, he was an American as I recall doing business in the CALS world.
He and I discussed his techniques when he presented them at a conference
I was keynoting in the very early nineties. If someone has access to
archives of TAG, it may be there somewhere.
Thanks for the reminder about the SQL sort order. I ran into that too.
Indexing by mapping hierarchy to integer ids looked intuitively simple
but proved to be anything but. I think the tumbler idea is a bit
better and more amenable to string wrangling.
len
From: Ken North [mailto:]
>> In the SGML days, there was a relational guru whose name I can't
recall.
We discussed Hans Schouten's work in this thread. Is he the person?
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200408/msg00317.html
