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RE: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)

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• Subject: RE: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)
• From: "Jelks Cabaniss" <jelks@j...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:19:10 -0400
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W. E. Perry wrote:

> > If (following Lou Burnard) a DTD is a theory about a 
> > document, then perhaps a data model is a theory about 
> > the markup in a document set.

> Demokritos made this point two and a half millennia ago:
> there exist only nothingness, atomic instances, and theories. 
> I have always found the Demokritan model uniquely well-suited 
> to understanding markup.

or XML-DEV.


/Jelks

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