Inserting into XML tables at arbitrary points

[Bill Humphries]

On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 02:12 PM, Greg Pierce wrote:

> Can I ask exactly what you're trying to accomplish with arbitrary 
> insertion?
>
> It seems the correct approach to this is to edit the XML before compiling 
> it to a table.

Who's doing the editing though, if it's a domain expert familiar with XML 
markup, then yes, the right thing to do is edit the text, check for 
well-formedness, validate against DTD or schema if necessary, then compile.

However, my users' expect a visual editing interface, and would run 
screaming for Gilroy if I asked them to edit markup. They aren't 
programmers.

-- whump