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Re: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)
• From: Sam Hunting <shunting@e...>
• Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:33:52 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>, Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...>, Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@e...>, "W. E. Perry" <wperry@f...>, XML DEV <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <200210071536.LAA16500@m...>

> > <counter-troll> The phrase <troll> XML is a <phrase>data model</phrase>,
> > the syntax in the XML 1.0 REC is just an annoying inconvenience.  
> > </troll>
> > does not appear in XML 1.0, therefore XML has no data model whatever,
> > since the Infoset isn't one and doesn't claim to be.</countertroll>
> 
> <fishing locus="bridge">
> Say rather that XML has no *unique authoritative* data model whatever,
> since the Infoset isn't one and doesn't claim to be.  But why should there
> be such a thing?  XML has many data models for different purposes.
> The Infoset provides a common terminology into which they can be translated.
> </fishing>

Fair enough. I like specs that are unique and authoritative because they
save endless argument ... So I say "no data model" rather than "many
models that claim to be data models." A saving of breath.

All this aside -- it is a truth universally acknowledged that most XML
processors are in need of a tree with a single root (SAX aside). If we
don't want to call that a data model, let's call it a paradigm. JITTs seek
to change that paradigm.

Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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