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Re: An inquiry into the nature of XML and how it orientsour pe

• From: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
• To: Olivier Rossel <olivier.rossel@gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:23:11 -0500

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:23:26PM +0100, Olivier Rossel wrote:
> May I mention the fact that XML represents trees, whereas a OO
> structure is a graph?
> 
> Sorry, my RDF lens makes me see all the world as graphs :-P

Your RDF lens is obscurig the fact that XML documents, in the
most general cases, represent graphs, not trees :-)

(consider entities that can appear multiple times and have
multiple parents, sa well as id/idref relationships, for
example)

Liam


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• References:
  • An inquiry into the nature of XML and how it orients our perceptionof information
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: An inquiry into the nature of XML and how it orients our perception of information
    • From: Olivier Rossel <olivier.rossel@gmail.com>