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Hi Folks, When you create an XML data model, do you ask yourself: What properties do I want this XML data model to possess? Until recently, I didn't. Mathematicians frequently talk about properties such as the commutative property and the associative property. But do data modelers talk about properties? For a couple years I have wondered how properties apply to XML. What properties would I want an XML data model to possess? Category Theory has opened my eyes to the idea of applying properties to XML data models. In this paper I describe three properties that you may want your XML data models to possess: injective, surjective, and bijective. I describe what these terms mean and how they are relevant to XML. More ... http://www.xfront.com/Injective-Surjective-Bijective-XML-Data-Models.pdf Comments welcome. /Roger [Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] |
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