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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
 > > What is the "cognitive style" of writing documents in XML vs. > It's not at that level: it's about bullet-point lists, really. Interesting topic. My team has been writing our specification documents in XML for a couple of years now, and most actually write using the markup directly. One oft-cited benefit is that the XML lets you "think in outline". Of course, there is nothing preventing you from editing in outline form with document formats that are non-XML, and conversely you can store many non-outline document formats as XML. So I assume the main point of discussion here would be about the difference between hierarchy vs. list thinking. Anyway, people who like outliners and mind maps are aware that outline style is obviously superior :-) But maybe some semantic web people would argue that graph style is even better. However, I think E-R diagrams and UML diagrams are useful in very specific domains, but quickly become overwhelming. In fact, for purposes of a presentation to an audience of more that two people, excessive hierarchy can quickly become overwhelming. Presentation is successful if most people in the room can correctly recall the basic outline and order of points made by the presenter; presentations are normally the distilled byproduct of analytical work, not the mechanism. 
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