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james anderson wrote: > Bill de hÓra wrote: > > Which 'the abstract data model' would that be? > > the one in terms of which operations in your processing-environment-of-choice are > expressed. Petitio principii, I fear. The larger point is that after 5+ years of XML processing a significant number of practitioners have discovered (or reaffirmed what they already knew) that XML applications are effectively monolithic from the syntactic instance to the idiosyncratic output. That is the inescapable consequence of a syntactic definition of XML--a hard fact which has been lost on, or ignored by, ancillary specifications that insist on introducing specious abstractions between the syntactically-conformant instance and some processing of it appropriate to a desired specific outcome. To induce from the nature of particular processing some abstract data model which appropriately describes an XML input instance as handled by that process may be a useful exercise in designing or refining the implementation of that process, but it is at best otiose to the XML instance itself, or indeed to other processing which might usefully manipulate that instance for other purposes. Grasping for such abstractions is the fundamental misconception (some days I am tempted to think 'obstinance') which regularly diverts conversations in the XML community from XML to not-XML. (Parenthetically, I am *very* sorry that Tim Bray might have absented himself from this present thread, addressing as it does core issues raised by our syntactically-defined standard. Given their fundamental nature, raising those questions is never out of order, nor is stare decesis in the name of the Namespaces Rec an adequate disposal of them.) Respectfully, Walter Perry
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