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• Subject: Doc vs. Data
• From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>
• Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:05:30 -0400
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At 2003-06-06 10:51 -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>Does anyone have any concrete differences between such uses of XML that 
>require such divisive terms as "doc vs data people".

Would mixed content suffice?

Data-oriented data can often be processed entirely with a "pull" model 
(XSLT or XQuery), while document-oriented mixed content needs to be 
processed with a "push" model (XSLT template rules).

I'm not sure I've ever seen mixed content used in a data-oriented model, 
but mixed content is very important to document-oriented information.

Does this help?

.................. Ken

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