Re: XML Data Model
From: Tom Hester <thester_at_metadata.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:48:05 -0800
Message-ID: <c84b7$41b7a032$45033832$15451_at_msgid.meganewsservers.com>
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> 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.
To mix a metaphor... Received on Thu Dec 09 2004 - 01:48:05 CET
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:48:05 -0800
Message-ID: <c84b7$41b7a032$45033832$15451_at_msgid.meganewsservers.com>
Tom Hester wrote:
> Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
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>> 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. >> >> >> >> as previously mentioned it started out as GML ... generalized >> markup language ...
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> 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.
To mix a metaphor... Received on Thu Dec 09 2004 - 01:48:05 CET