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  • To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
  • Subject: RE: Syntax + object model
  • From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
  • Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 10:07:24 -0700
  • Thread-index: AcMiEwebScElRCg2TIuyjRDwci8BzQAAnGXQ
  • Thread-topic: Syntax + object model

> >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.

If it's not for XML, then what the heck is it for?  If it's not a data
model, then what the heck is it?

Any sane person can see that it specifies a data model for XML.

I won't be lured into this rabbit hole.

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