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I would like to view XML as a logical data model. I hope the actual storage model will be transparent in the future. I.e. the next generation xml "parser" that implements a DOM interface should be able to talk to an xml source that physically is say an OODB and fetch small pieces of the document as they are requested by the application. I think you may be confusing "XML" and "document". The DOM API could certainly be used to wrapper documents originally expressed in formats other than XML, and I think everyone expects this to happen. That makes exporting and importing XML easier -- but it doesn't make the document XML, it just provides XML compatability. If you're using an XML parser, you're talking about XML syntax. If you want to generate a DOM (or a SAX stream) for some other format, you'll use a parser for that format. If you want to read the data from an OODB, you'll use an OODB query operation. That may return the data as XML (which you'll then put through a standard XML parser) or might return it directly as DOM or SAX. The XML world is interesting because it's generating a whole cluster of interrelated standards and conventions and tools based upon them. You don't have to use all of those together for them to be individually valuable. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research Unless stated otherwise, all opinions are solely those of the author. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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