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Costello, Roger L. wrote: > > Hypothesis: The Role of an XML Document is either as a Storage > Medium or as a Transport Format > > An XML document may take one of these roles: > > (1) The XML document is a storage medium. Applications operate > directly on the XML document. > > (2) The XML document is a (transient) transport format. Upon arrival > at its destination the data is moved into a storage medium (such as a > relational database). Applications do not operate on the XML > document. Applications operate on the data in the storage medium. > On an AJAX client, when it receives an XML document, the data is typically not "stored" either in native XML nor in some storage medium, but used directly by the current script. So AJAX seems to fit neither of Roger's choices. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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