Relational Tables and structured documents

[Jonathan Robie]

At 11:34 AM 3/22/98 -0600, Deke Smith wrote:
 
>Arijit Sengupta, asengupt at 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
 
jonathan at texcel.no
Texcel Research
http://www.texcel.no

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