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 Jeni, Jeni Tennison wrote: >Hi Patrick, > >>>I don't think that I do. I'm quite happy for XML to be interpreted >>>as the Infoset, as the PSVI, as the XPath data model, as the DOM >>>data model, as the LMNL data model, indeed as any data model anyone >>>wants to use with it! XML is a syntax, that's all. >>> >>Sorry, that is simply not correct. >> >>Underlying XML is a data model. That data model is set forth at: >>http://www.w3.org/XML/Datamodel.html >> > >Ahh, I see. This must be the nub of our disagreement. > >The document that you quote is not a normative definition of XML. >There are many normative definitions of data models for XML, including >the Infoset and XPath. > And it is luck that they all follow a tree based model? > >It's a classic "chicken and egg" thing -- data models and syntaxes are >intertwined -- but in this case, XML is defined as a syntax, which can >have many data models; LMNL is defined as a data model, which can have >many syntaxes. > And all those data models look a lot like trees? > >I don't know how to persuade you of this, but I see that Tim Bray's >written a message that will hopefully help... > Probably time to end this particular thread. I was trying to convince you that if everything the W3C has done with XML looks like a tree, then it must have a tree model. I have failed in that attempt and don't really have any other evidence to offer. (I don't consider a plethora of tree based data models persuasive at all that XML has a one syntax and many data models.) This is particularly important in light of your insistance that new models of XML must still comply with the well-formedness strictures of XML 1.0. You can have any model you like with XML, so long as it is tree based. (Or convert to some other model but I don't share your confidence in that strategy.) But, as Sam Hunting has recently pointed out, all XML processors save SAX, treat XML documents as trees with a single root, so call JITTs a challenge to implementations of a non-existent data model in XML. Patrick > >Cheers, > >Jeni > >--- >Jeni Tennison >http://www.jenitennison.com/ > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an >initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > >The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription >manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> > -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@e... 
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