• From: Ronald Bourret <rbourret@i...>
• To: "xml-dev@i..." <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:00:41 +0100

Paul Prescod wrote:

> Argh. Documents are data. The dichotomy is in your head. Doesn't XML
> itself makes this abundantly clear?

Documents might be data, but the dichotomy is not just in our heads.  XML 
has a clear bias towards linear, prose-oriented verbiage.  How else to 
explain mixed content, the significance of order (as opposed to nesting), 
and the lack of basic data typing?  Fortunately, XML is proving itself to 
be a good way to transport the kinds of data many of us think of when we 
hear the word "data".

-- Ron Bourret


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