Re: Refs to elements and attributes in XML

[Kees Jongenburger <keesj@netlinq.nl>]

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Phillip Rhodes wrote:

> Silly question here.  Trying to understand this thing.
> Is it possible for an xml document to have multiple nodes in the doc structure that all point to the same instance of an object?
> Would it be possible to store a relational database as an xml structure in ozone?  For example, a xml doc that would be 3GB in size that would store customers, orders, order line items, shipments, etc,
> Is anyone doing this kind of stuff? 
> Thanks so much.
> Phillip

oracle provides an relational to xml mapping bean so you could use it to transform 
the relational database to and XML database, still i don't know if that is realy
what you whant. if your data is realy rational(you lucky bastXXXX) i would chose for
the oracle kind of solution (sql -> xml and back).

greets 
Kees Jongenburger