• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Syntax + object model
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 09:57:05 -0700
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• Thread-topic: Syntax + object model

The XPath data model is a data model for XML, is as close to the XML infoset as you can get and is standardized. 
 
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck then it's a duck. 

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From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...]
Sent: Sat 5/24/2003 9:38 AM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE:  Syntax + object model



joshuaa@m... (Joshua Allen) writes:
>XML *has* a very useful standardized data model [1] that coexists with
>the serialization syntax, and I predict that both will survive for a
>very long time.
>
>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-query-datamodel-20011220/

No, that document is quite explicitly the "W3C XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0
Data Model".  It makes no claims whatsoever to be a standardized data
model for XML, nor should it.

--
Simon St.Laurent
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