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Re: Holographic XML

• From: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@gmail.com>
• To: Micah Dubinko <Micah.Dubinko@marklogic.com>
• Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 13:15:02 -0500

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Micah Dubinko
<Micah.Dubinko@marklogic.com> wrote:
> XML is 1-dimensional. It is defined as a sequence of characters. This is true even of, for example, an SVG document.
>
> There is no need for XML to "expand" to more dimensions, though higher-level layers might come in to play.
>

I'd disagree: a sequence of characters is a lower level representation
than XML; XML adds semantic and syntactic representation on top of
that and gives you much more than a "sequence of characters."

-- 
Peter Hunsberger

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