[Paul Prescod]
>  ...
>  Rather than trying to figure out a One True SQL mapping, I would
>  encourage you to think: "what are the resource types that I am trying to
>  transmit." Invent XML vocabularies for those. Use simple ASPs or CGIs to
>  build those XML documents based on URI queries. This shifts effort from
>  the client to the server. That's usually good in and of itself (it
>  allows simpler clients) but it also means that you will work better with
>  other parts of the Web infrastructure like XInclude, RDF, XSLT, etc.
>  Most important, it means that your clients are much less coupled to the
>  schema of your database.
> 

Hmm, I think your post to Didier said just about what my most recent one
said. In a way, it's like learning to use xslt effectively - takes a sort of
mind shift.

Cheers,

Tom P


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