Re: Relational Tables and structured documents

Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 07:20:36 -0500

At 11:34 AM 3/22/98 -0600, Deke Smith wrote:

>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

I saw this in 1976, but I didn't grasp why it is useful to express an SQL
query in SGML, instead of just storing the SQL string. Can you give me some
scenarios that would clarify this?

Jonathan

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