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Joe English wrote: >> The best answer to the question "How does an XML document indicate how it >> should be processed?" is "It doesn't." >> >> "How does an XML document indicate how it should be processed *in system >> XYZ*?" can be answered by system XYZ. [Walter Perry] >This is a wonderfully succinct statement of the consequences of data being >autonomous from process. Not only that but any attempt at superimposing a singular process view on the data will just bend the all data out of shape and further distort an already unavoidably distorted model of reality: "A message to mapmakers: highways are not painted red, rivers don't have county lines running down the middle, and you can't see contour lines on a mountain." So sayeth, William Kent, in "Data and Reality" http://home.earthlink.net/~billkent/Doc/darxrp.htm A book published nearly a quarter of a century ago which is easily the best XML book I have ever read. regards, Sean
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