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 Okay, sure, this came up through Slashdot, but it's interesting and connects to a number of XML issues. http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/~mine0057/fs.pdf "The filesystem is a database, but it has always been unsuitable as the computer's primary one. Programmers have to write specialized programs to get the functionality they need. Now, new advances in software like Plan 9, the Reiser 4 filesystem and Linux are making the improvements the filesystem needs to become viable. Plan 9 is using the filesystem as the integral system interface, and the Reiser filesystem is unifying pointlessly different but equivalent namespaces. For operating systems to improve for users (that always includes programmers), they need to incorporate these new ideas." The bit that particularly caught my eye was this: "This is nice progress. All the functionality GConf needs the filesystem provides, which eliminates the need to install the GConf program and the required XML libraries." Filesystems with child structures are presented as an alternative to files with attributes, which is an interesting parallel to elements with child elements as an alternative to elements with attributes. It also reminded me of conversation last week (Gabe Beged-Dov, are you still on this list?) about the interesting possibilities of using URLs as locators with decomposable structures rather than monolithic identifiers. Cool stuff, well worth thinking about, even though it isn't directly XML. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org 
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