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Another option is to stop kicking against the traces. If everyone understands "data-oriented" to be equivalent to "record-like" and "document-oriented" same as "narrative", which I believe is the case, why worry about it? The whole discussion reminds me of programmers who want to break an API to give things "better" names. Bob Foster From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...> > I agree - I've never liked them either. I like "record-like" and > "narrative". Another option is to rename "data-oriented" to > "exchange-oriented" (i.e. used in an exchange between trading partners). > > Kind Regards, > Joe Chiusano > Booz | Allen | Hamilton > > Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > > > At 11:07 AM -0400 8/13/03, Chiusano Joseph wrote: > > > > >In any event, I believe the "data-oriented" and "document-oriented" XML > > >divide is being blurred these days [1]. > > > > I *hate* those terms. All XML documents contain data. All XML data is > > found in documents. No exceptions. I've been pushing the alternative > > terms record-like and narrative, which I think are more descriptive, > > for a few years now, but so far without much success. :-( > > -- > > > > Elliotte Rusty Harold > > elharo@m... > > Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) > > http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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>
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