Database proposal

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

A quick comment on the opening paragraph of the proposal, which reads:

> Though documents conforming to this proposal will be single-file and 
> database-like, they may actually not contain any relational data, as 
> usually associated with the term database. Instead, such documents 
> will contain anything a user wants to create and store as front-end 
> for a database: Queries, Forms, Reports, plus information how to 
> connect to the actual data.
>
Following "they may actually not contain any relational data..." with 
"Instead, such documents will contain..."  creates the impression that 
the documents will not contain the results of queries.

I suspect the intent was to say that these documents are not "databases" 
nor files for "databases" but the wording seems to go beyond that. After 
all, the result of a query is "relational data" in the usual sense of 
the word.

Suggest:

Though documents conforming to this proposal will be single-file and 
database-like, they are not database files. Such documents will contain 
anything a user wants to create and store as front-end for a database: 
Queries, Forms, Reports, information how to connect to the actual data 
and the results of queries.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick




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Patrick Durusau
Patrick@Durusau.net
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
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