Compound Documents/Suggestions

This is from the document called, "XML in the Oracle Internet File System." It indicates that compound documents are an ideal application of iFS:
"Oracle Internet File System is designed at its core to be just such an extensible file system. At the Java level, you can define overrides and agents (the equivalent of database triggers) to manage compound documents. "
"Indeed, if the compound document that describes the collective entity (order, book, insurance claim, etc.) is stored in the Oracle Internet File Systemwhich means by definition, in the databasethe obstacles of integrating relational and file-based data into a single document disappear. File-based applications can treat the content as an XML file, while relational applications can manipulate the same content through SQL."
Has anyone done this? Does anyone from Oracle have any suggestions for this? My thought was to create a document type that is just an XML file with information about all grouped documents. I just wanted to find out whether there is an official line on this?
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Right...I understand the part about accessing the data as XML or as relational data, but that seems to be a separate feature from compound documents. I can access non-compound data as XML or as relational data. How the data is accessed seems to be a separate issues from whether it is comprised of compound or singular entities. The issue I specifically interested in is the one that refers to accessing collective entities. This implies, for example, chapters in a book. I would like to group related documents together in a compound document. My question is this: If Oracle is touting this as a capability of iFS, what is your recommended implementation?
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ewaller wrote:@cfr: Which interface are you using?
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