8.4. Creating the Database
In order to store XML data in this fashion, we need tables that reflect the abstract structure of the DOM, with the added information required by the Nested Sets Model. We need one or more tables in which to store information about the node, such as its type, its x and y coordinates, any attributes, and its name (which may include a namespace) or its content (in the case of a text or CDATA node). We need to be mindful of the possible contents of each type of node; an element node will have a name and may have a namespace and/or a list of attributes (treated as name/value pairs), whereas a text leaf just has text content. Furthermore, since we want to build a repository for more than one document, we need a table to ...
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