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On 8/24/05, Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@i...> wrote: > > Abstractly, nodes is nodes and properties is properties, > and we understand it, but it seems to confuse people > who can't resist seeing element types as class > declarations minus the methods. That of course sends > the entity/attribute camp members up the tree, and > so much for kumbayah. My point was more or less "XML is just labeled data". What meaning you as a human, your simple code, your bleeding edge OWL-inferencer, or your Sci-Fi Strong AI impute to those labels is not XML's business. However high you stack these turtles, the only thing at the bottom of the stack is the primitive notion of a "label". > > We ask the top turtle it's name. As long > the top turtle remains balanced, we > don't worry about the name of his subordinate being > correct because we don't have to care. Otherwise, > we ask the top turtle to name his turtle. I think we have tortured this metaphor in different ways to extract the same confession :-)
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