Re: SQL for presentation

From: Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose_at_free.quelquepart.fr>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:01:53 +0200
Message-ID: <44ac0b76$0$16240$636a55ce@news.free.fr>

J M Davitt a écrit :
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>> In web applications, the presentation - HTML - is a data structure.

>
> HTML is a markup language. I would hesitate to call it a
> structure simply because it has a hierarchic tag scheme.

It's yet common in web application to have an internal tree representing the "hierarchic tag scheme". In Javascript, this is called the DOM (Document Object Model). Some web template systems also create this tree, then transform it to it's textual (HTML) representation. AFAIK, in any CS101 course or book, a tree is a data structure.

> It
> certainly lacks the rigorous features that the relational model
> calls structure and uses to store and manipulate data.

And ? Received on Wed Jul 05 2006 - 14:01:53 CDT