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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:27:27PM -0600, Bob Foster wrote:
>In the second, a hierarchy isn't a natural representation of tuples,
>either. If it were, you would find at least one user interface in some
>application somewhere outside the XML world that required you to do data
>entry in a hierarchy. Tuples are better represented flattened into a
Err. regedit? LDAP tools? Less convincingly, perhaps, but the standard
navigation metaphor for filesystems is tree-structured and hierarchical.
>form, and iterated tuples are better represented as tables. If you have
>to deal with data in an unnatural format, you might as well stick to text.
I'll note, though, that I use a text editor for writing XML. All I want is
syntax highlighting.
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