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RE: Syntax + object model

• To: "Gustaf Liljegren" <gustaf.liljegren@b...>
• Subject: RE: Syntax + object model
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 18:24:57 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Syntax + object model

> >What you are describing is a "data model", not an "object model".
> 
> Admittedly, programming terminology isn't my domain. Why are XQuery
and
> XPath data models, while DOM is refered to as an object model?

A data model describes the data over which programming models can
operate.  Objects *can* be used to represent data, of course, but
objects are more typically used to organize code or libraries of
behavior, and "object model" usually means "API".

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