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Dan Weinreb wrote: > From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...> > > 1) The XML specification defines a serialization syntax. It does not > define what that syntax models. Thus, in a strict sense, my comment is > correct. However, depending on your view of the world, this may or may > not apply. > > I think that's true of the "XML spec" proper, but wouldn't you say > that the "XML Info Set spec" does talk about what the syntax models, > at least to some extent? It does. So do SAX, DOM, XPath, XQuery... That's why I had point 2: > 2) For many (most?) people, you are correct -- the native XML > database models the data in the documents. In this case, the model > of the document is a proxy for the objects used to model the data, > just like tables and columns are a proxy for the objects in the > relational model. -- Ron
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