Re: why hierarchy?

From: JOG <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Aug 2006 03:40:59 -0700
Message-ID: <1154688059.503075.143760@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Another cracking quote on XML from C. M. SPERBERG-MCQUEEN ( a member of the technical staff of the World Wide Web Consortium)

"In the wild (that is, in documents, reports, and program data structures as they are encountered in daily life), information takes forms rather different from third normal form."

Yup, that's right, "information takes forms rather different from third normal form". Don't worry about the fact that third normal form is just a way of rearranging true propositions in a lossless way. No siree, because that would make it _totally_ different information. Good grief, how does this stuff get published. Received on Fri Aug 04 2006 - 05:40:59 CDT