• To: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Subject: Re: XML database enviroment using PostgreSQL
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:41:53 -0400
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At 11:07 AM -0400 8/13/03, Chiusano Joseph wrote:


>In any event, I believe the "data-oriented" and "document-oriented" XML
>divide is being blurred these days [1].


I *hate* those terms. All XML documents contain data. All XML data is 
found in documents. No exceptions. I've been pushing the alternative 
terms record-like and narrative, which I think are more descriptive, 
for a few years now, but so far without much success. :-(
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA

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