Re: XPath and a continuous, uniform information space

````````````  John Cowan

The Ftan paper says specifically in the FtanML data model section that a FtanML element is just its name and its attributes (the content value is an attribute named by the empty string).  It's a pure, if compound, value, like a mathematical ordered pair or a complex number, and has no notion of being embedded in a specific context, hence no parent.  This means that it's a no-op to make a copy of a Ftan element, just as it's a no-op to make a copy of 32+45i.

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Yes this is the data model to which I was referring.  Of all the FtanML this was the most thought provoking to me.