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Vladimir Gapeyev wrote: > > This is, I guess, the "document-oriented culture", which has its > peculiar needs, as you describe. But there is also the data-oriented > culture, with its own peculiar needs. All what I was hypothesizing, was > that the needs of both could be covered by single syntax and a single > data model, without inconveniencing either of the cultures. > The beauty of XML is that the syntax can be shared without sharing the data models. Data models are not interoperable. Your model is not mine which is not Walter's; and that's OK. A standardized data model is a bug, not a feature. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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