Re: Hierarchical data models

From: Tegiri Nenashi <tegirinenashi_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:10:34 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <2a7d1c76-f6bc-4f09-aebb-686e4432dfe4_at_j21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>


On Aug 16, 1:21 pm, Nilone <rea..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 16, 7:16 pm, Tegiri Nenashi <tegirinena..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > That would be XML -- a robust and well established data model applied
> > universally to any problem.
>
> XML can represent it, yes.  I'll investigate further in this
> direction.

Well, you missed two subtle points. First, I borrowed the word "robust" from some computer climate modeler who used it dozen times in his last paper. Second, XML is far from being a just a data model, let alone "well established" one.

To make it crystal clear, I was kidding in the XML part of my message; the other part was serious. Received on Mon Aug 17 2009 - 04:10:34 CEST

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