>>Or you can have someone define how the joins
>>should be made to create the XML elements. There is not, of course, a
>
>Thanks. This is indeed the solution I have been pursuing. My intention is
>to control the joins through a set of declarations (in XML :-) - this means
>that they can be reconfigured by different people/clients. I wondered if
>there was already a standard 'language' for this or whether I just hack my
>own and hope.
Arijit Sengupta, asengupt@cs.indiana.edu, has done some research in
expressing SQL queries in SGML. He has a rather complete SGML DTD for SQL:
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/asengupt/sgml96/dtd/
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/asengupt.html
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