[xquery-talk] Re: The State of Native XML databases

[Dr Orlovsky MA]

>> Why mix relational concepts, which is what a collection really is
> 
> Eh? What's relational about the collection concept? A collection is simply a
> set of XML documents. If you want to search for a document then you have to
> have some way of scoping the set of documents that you want to search.

Collection is not critical for Sedna functioning, you can easy work with
individual documents or documents flows not organized into collections