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RE: Re: validating hairy data models (was Attribute

• To: 'Christian Nentwich ' <c.nentwich@c...>
• Subject: RE: Re: validating hairy data models (was Attribute order)
• From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 01:33:26 -0800
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I guess the question I'm asking is that if the document looks like XML (has
XML syntax and is well-formed) but the data model is specified in such a way
that no off-the-shelf tools can with certainty handle it (along the lines
of, say, the spec declaring attribute order to be significant, or elements
{X,Y,Z} being allowed to appear anywhere, any number of times, in any order,
including within other ordered element content models, or namespaces not
being used merely to disambiguate, but as a mechanism to insert private
elements and attributes anywhere within a document, etc.), then is it really
any more useful than any other arbitrary document syntax? Why even use XML?

Oh, I know-- marketing. Duh.

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