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Well now you've gone and done it. :-) It's a false or weak distinction but when used it has more to do with the source of the information and how that shapes the XML structure and features used, so you are basically right. At the extremes, say Docbook vs a serialized relational database, it appears to be a clear distinction, but then given a Docbook text for say a technical manual with tables of information, say illustrated parts breakdowns that can be maintained in relational form, one sees that it isn't. From an older perspective, that of SGML, they are all documents. len From: George Richard Russell [mailto:George.Russell@c...] I was wondering if there was a "good" definition of both data "record-like" and document oriented "narrative" XML which is either widely accepted, or otherwise published in the academic literature. I have been unable to find a usable definition, and wondered if one was known to those on this list. Has anyone gone through the features of XML 1.0 and attempted to partition them into data|doc|both? Or does it seem more likely that the split occurs in how the various features are used, as opposed to what features? Apologies for possibly awakening a permathread.
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