September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
22h 3m
English
IN THIS CHAPTER
20.1 Why Use XML for Documents?
20.2 Creating a Schema for a Set of Documents: Document Analysis
20.3 Implementing Document Processing
An XML document is always a tree-structured data set. For applications involving ordinary relational databases, selecting the appropriate tree structure to match the data is fairly straightforward. The tricky part is ensuring that the datatypes used can be implemented in the database and vice versa.
On the other hand, when XML is used to structure “real documents” (technical books, novels, textbooks, catalogs, mathematical and chemical papers—the list goes on and on), figuring out the structure can be difficult because of the sheer number of variations.
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