[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: The relentless march of abstraction

  • From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
  • To: Dave Winer <dave@u...>, "xml-dev@x..." <xml-dev@x...>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:26:42 -0500

be relentless david x
Dave Winer wrote:


> About the "potted" business -- I truly am confused by much of what goes on
> here, so it wasn't potted,

No, I meant the article you cited: a brief summary of a one-sided view
of the Infoset.

> I thought I finally got infosets, and was
> excited. I didn't get them? They seem like a DOM but for data, a
> programmatic way to walk a tagged-text-derived tree.

The Infoset is just a model of a document, not a concrete API
like the DOM.

> I wonder how much of what's going on here is an attempt
> to make an arbitrary hierarchy map onto tables.

It isn't.

 
> Anyway, I've been a hierarchic guy ever since I started programming so many
> years ago.

Me too.  Ailanthus Tree > Stuart II > Stuart > LBBS.


-- 
There is / one art             || John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
no more / no less              || http://www.reutershealth.com
to do / all things             || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
with art- / lessness           \\ -- Piet Hein


PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!

Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced!

Buy Stylus Studio Now

Download The World's Best XML IDE!

Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today!

Don't miss another message! Subscribe to this list today.
Email
First Name
Last Name
Company
Subscribe in XML format
RSS 2.0
Atom 0.3
 

Stylus Studio has published XML-DEV in RSS and ATOM formats, enabling users to easily subcribe to the list from their preferred news reader application.


Stylus Studio Sponsored Links are added links designed to provide related and additional information to the visitors of this website. they were not included by the author in the initial post. To view the content without the Sponsor Links please click here.

Site Map | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Trademarks
Free Stylus Studio XML Training:
W3C Member
Stylus Studio® and DataDirect XQuery ™are products from DataDirect Technologies, is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation, in the U.S. and other countries. © 2004-2013 All Rights Reserved.