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Re: Doc vs. Data

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• Subject: Re: Doc vs. Data
• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 06 Jun 2003 16:13:26 -0700
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"Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...> writes:

> I'm not sure I agree with your comments on pull vs. push based
> processing. I do agree that mixed content is the probably the most
> relevant differentiator between data-centric & document-centric uses
> of XML. However I don't see where this leads to the position that
> there is antagonism between the folks that tend to create XML
> documents that contain mixed content and those that don't.
> 

I'd say the difference is in how much of the XML one wants to
see. "Data" folks seem to want to hide as much of it as possible
behind tools, APIs and data models (even when they call them other
names), while "doc" people seem to want to edit XML "in the source".

Ari.

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