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Jim Melton wrote: > They were both designed by "doc-heads", not by "data-heads" who >have a much different view of the world. Of course, much of the data in the heads of the data-heads is object-oriented, in which "attributes" (which admittedly aren't quite the same as the SGML/XML ones) are also implicitly unordered. I think that doc-heads are much more interested in sequential ordering of data than the data-heads, who, when not thinking in terms of objects are thinking in terms of tables of unordered rows. (See [1] for my picture of a data-head and a doc-head. It accompanied my XML 2004 presentation and paper[2] "Documents vs. Data, Schemas vs. Schemas.") Bob weblog: http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/ homepage: http://www.snee.com/bob [1] http://www.snee.com/xml/dheads.jpg [2] http://www.snee.com/xml/xml2004paper.html
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