Re: XML Data Model

From: Tom Hester <thester_at_metadata.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:43:12 -0800
Message-ID: <3c363$41b79f0e$45033832$15451@msgid.meganewsservers.com>

Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:

> Tom Hester <thester_at_metadata.com> writes:
>

>>But, it seems to me that all of this is beside the point.  XML is an
>>interface language, not a data language.  There is no data model for
>>XML because it does not describe data (facts about the real world).
>>Rather it describes how to pass text between processes.

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> as previously mentioned it started out as GML ... generalized
> markup language ...

Yeah, XML has two parents--hence the X and ML. It's other parent is X, the old W3C standard modeling language. An early problem with XML was its trying to serve both task masters. Received on Wed Dec 08 2004 - 18:43:12 CST