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RE: Syntax + object model

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• Subject: RE: Syntax + object model
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 13:12:56 -0400
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joshuaa@m... (Joshua Allen) writes:
>> >XML *has* a very useful standardized data model [1] that coexists
>with
>> >the serialization syntax, and I predict that both will survive for a
>> >very long time.
>> >
>> >[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-query-datamodel-20011220/
>> 
>> No, that document is quite explicitly the "W3C XQuery 1.0 and XPath
>> 2.0 Data Model".  It makes no claims whatsoever to be a standardized
>> data model for XML, nor should it.
>
>If it's not for XML, then what the heck is it for?  If it's not a data
>model, then what the heck is it?
>
>Any sane person can see that it specifies a data model for XML.
>
>I won't be lured into this rabbit hole.

You're the one who made the claim.  Don't care to follow, don't make the
claim.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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