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RE: YAML Ain't Markup Language

• To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>,"Martin Soukup" <martin@d...>,"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: YAML Ain't Markup Language
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:48:51 -0400
• In-reply-to: <B885BEDCB3664E4AB1C72F1D85CB29F80648444F@R...>

At 10:51 AM 6/6/2003 -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

>I often here folks on XML-DEV talk about the distinction between 
>data-centric vs. document-centric uses of XML yet I've always failed to 
>see how these uses of XML are at loggerheads. This now seems to me to be 
>the typical XML-DEV posturing the advance an agenda.

Data is information that a computer can process. A document is information 
that I can process.

>Does anyone have any concrete differences between such uses of XML that 
>require such divisive terms as "doc vs data people".

Sure. A document person is someone who doesn't appreciate the significance 
of using XML for data. A data person is someone who doesn't appreciate the 
significance of using XML for documents intended for humans. You can 
usually identify a document person when he calls someone else a datahead. 
You can usually identify a data person when he calls someone else a dochead.

Then there are the XML people, who understand the significance of XML for 
both documents and data.

Jonathan 

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