Re: DTD: Possible missing attributes/entities - Was: revised gda-xml-query.dtd

[Vivien Malerba <malerba linuxave net>]

On mer, 26 jui 2000, you wrote:
> Sorry if this is old ground, but I'm new to the list.
> Various wrote:
> > > My idea about the DATABASE DTD is to include on it information about all
> > > the objects contained in a database, so that you can use it to
> > > import/export data as well as to design a database in the db designer
> > > and then create it for a given DBMS. An example of this:
> > >
> > > <DATABASE>
> > >   <TABLE NAME="table1" OWNER="me">
> (snip)
> > >   </TABLE>
> > > </DATABASE>
> What about the case where a table is NOT accessible directly,
> but is indirectly accessible via the database you are connecting
> to ?

Can you describe that, I don't understand what it is (I'm not an Oracle user).
Is that more or less like a view?

Vivien