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I think, two primary models for which XML instances can be used are data
(to represent messages, records etc) and documents (for e.g HTML like,
where there may be lot of mixed content). If we look at modeling data
aspects, I think XML can be used to represent both hierarchic and
network structures. XML Infoset inherently looks hierarchic, but it can
be mentally and technically be mapped to non hierarchic structures.
Given this nature of XML, I think XML Schemas can be used to model data in general (semantics can be built on top of XML Schema features). But I think, there are other techniques available, which should be used to do enterprise scale data modeling in general (for e.g, ER diagrams, class diagrams etc), which are specialized for data modeling (they provide all the features out-of-the-box and are already very robust). On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@yahoo.de> wrote:
-- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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