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Re: syntax, model

• To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>,"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: syntax, model
• From: Tyler Close <tyler@w...>
• Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:51:24 -0400
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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On Friday 24 October 2003 12:04, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> > From: Tyler Close [mailto:tyler@w...]
> > That's what a data model is. A data model tells you how you
> > can expect data to be structured.
> >
> > Perhaps we need an explicit definition of what a data model is.
> > Could you provide yours?
>
> XML schema languages operate on significant subsets of XML data models.
> For instance, there are probably an infinite amount of XQuery
> expressions that cannot be described by any existing XML schema
> especially not W3C XML Schema which it uses as the basis of its type
> system.
>
> Conflating XML schema languages and data models belies an ignorance of
> the topic at hand.

So instead of a definition, I get an insult. Curious.

I repeat the question. What, in generic terms, is a data model?

Tyler

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