Good point, in a relational design there might be many more tables than would be desirable even in a fairly flat XML rendering. However, I still think there a some common design considerations in a flag XML rendering that could make it into a data transport format for a relational GLUE 2 database. In other words, it is closer to a fully normalized relational design than other GLUE 2 encodings, right? JP On Mar 22, 2010, at 9:09 AM, <stephen.burke@stfc.ac.uk> <stephen.burke@stfc.ac.uk> wrote:
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[mailto:glue-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of JP Navarro said: It seems like a flat XML rendering of GLUE 2 might actually be very similar or identical in structure to a SQL rendering. If so, it would be interesting to align these two implementations of GLUE 2.
How do you deal with multivalued attributes and relations in xml? That's the thing which causes most difficulty in SQL, but doesn't xml just let you repeat things like LDAP?
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