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Mark Seaborne wrote: >... > Unfortunately, some organisations appear to be taking > the position that because XML is now usable in every > tool under the sun, that not only should it be used > everywhere, but it can be used everywhere as is. > So, at least where I work, I get the distinct > impression (hopefully false) that organisations are > actually wanting the data interchange format to be > what they build new back end systems over, so they > don't have to do bother with any transformation. I agree that this is a problem. That's why I stress that the XML is a data representation and not, in general, the implementation's internal data model. Paul Prescod
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