<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ihe,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I had discussions with Michael Stonebreaker for 20 years about about the fact that</div><div class="">XML “exists” or not. With Jim Gray too, before he disappeared. They were both extremely</div><div class="">supportive for me, yet were both thinking that I am crazy to waste my research career on XML.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stonebreaker’s opinion: he doesn’t believe that XML “exists” in industry.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So he will not mention it, because it doesn’t exist :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But you have to remember that Stonebreaker is a database person. Probably he will not</div><div class="">understand the facet of XML which is “XML as documents”. It took me and the other database </div><div class="">people involved in XQuery years before we swallowed it. (Don Chamberlin of SQL fame</div><div class="">famously once said “who in the world would care about such a corner case as mixed content !?").</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Don’t blame the database people that they don’t “get” XML. On one hand, it has never been explained</div><div class="">to them properly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And again, Stonebreaker, being a database person, he will look at “XML as data” aspect of the story.</div><div class="">And this today is INDEED non-existing in industry, or almost. Or, when t is, it is mostly for log analysis.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">============</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">JSON will completely change the landscape, in surprising ways, that none of us can predict.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And no, I trust that Michael Stonebreaker is too smart to believe that SQL is a solution to process JSON.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But time will tell.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards</div><div class="">Dana</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 23, 2015, at 12:15 AM, Ihe Onwuka <<a href="mailto:ihe.onwuka@gmail.com" class="">ihe.onwuka@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K0SWs1mOD0" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K0SWs1mOD0</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">By implication it puts the kibosh on SQL as the basis of a solution for the future.</div></div>
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