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RE: Is an element's name metadata?

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• Subject: RE: Is an element's name metadata?
• From: Dave Pawson <dpawson@n...>
• Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:33:22 +0100
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At 15:46 25/06/2003 -0400, Allen Razdow wrote:
>IMO, because field-names (column names) in a relational database are
>referred to as meta-data along with the rest of the database schema, XML
>element names, and the schema/DTD are likewise meta-data relative to the
>data in the element.  Clearly, "meta" is a recursive concept.  As they said
>on Broadway, "Anything you can do I can do meta!"....:)

Has anyone done any serious research into this docheads vs dataheads divide..
if it exists?

regards DaveP

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