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>"Alaric B. Snell" wrote: > >> I think that 'document like structures' needn't be totally >>isolated from 'data >> like structures'... but I think that document-like should be a subset of >> data-like. "Data" is a very general term for 'information', >>document is a bit >> more specific. I don't like either of those words in this usage. All XML documents are documents. All XML documents contain data. I prefer to talk about "narrative" documents and "record-like" documents. In narrative documents order generally matters a great deal and mixed content is common. In record like documents order is of limited importance and mixed content is rare. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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