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>>but rather, whether XML itself -- that is, text files conforming to XML 1.0 -- should be used as the primary storage medium for large applications<< Perhaps not the primary storage medium, but certainly as the backup medium. Frank Frank Boumphrey Style and XML information http://www.hypermedic.com/style/index.htm Author: Professional Style Sheets for HTML and XML http:// www.wrox.com ----- Original Message ----- From: David Megginson <david@m...> To: XML Developers' List <xml-dev@i...> Sent: Friday, January 29, 1999 2:11 PM Subject: Re: What is XML for? >Simon St.Laurent writes: > > > XML is not just a file format any more, or an interchange format. > > XML describes a set of structures that are extremely generic, and > > which map very well to a wide variety of structures used in data > > processing. > >Actually, strictly speaking, XML 1.0 *is* just a file format, or more >accurately, a meta-format. As soon as an XML document is converted >into SAX events or a DOM tree or SQL tables or persistent objects or >anything else, it's not XML anymore (though it can, perhaps, be >written back out as XML, depending on the application). > >The question that we're discussing is not whether the rich recursive >and hierarchical structures that XML can model are useful (I know from >eight years' experience that they are), but rather, whether XML itself >-- that is, text files conforming to XML 1.0 -- should be used as the >primary storage medium for large applications. > > >All the best, > > >David > >-- >David Megginson david@m... > http://www.megginson.com/ > >xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ >To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >(un)subscribe xml-dev >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >subscribe xml-dev-digest >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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