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Re: Len Silverston's Universal Data Models sanity

From: Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_at_ncs.es>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 14:34:53 GMT
Message-ID: <409a3647.10829512@news-read3.maxwell.syr.edu>


On Thu, 06 May 2004 09:33:11 -0300,
=?iso-8859-1?q?Leandro_Guimar=E3es_Faria_Corsetti_Dutra?= <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm> wrote:

>> This is what the Transrelational Model offers, and why it is a so
>> important advance.
>
> I am not so sure the TRM is really that much better...

Perhaps because you still have not readen the patent ;-)

>> Although ASCII text is never very efficient.
>
> The thing about XML is not efficiency, but the hierarchical
>model. There are binary versions of XML intended for wire
>transmission. So there could be also binary, wire versions of any D.

Of course.

Regards
  Alfredo Received on Thu May 06 2004 - 09:34:53 CDT

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