• To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: XML-aware programming language?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:00:16 -0500
• Cc: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>, Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>, xml-dev@l...
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Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Daniela Florescu wrote:
> 
> 
>> XQuery and XSLT do have a data model that will stay at the foundation of
>> XML processing in the future. I think it is too late by now to deny that.
> 
> This is *a* data model. It is not *the* data model. There is no one XML 
> data model, and there will not be. The XQuery/XPath 2.0 Data Model will 
> only be the foundation for XQuery and XSLT 2. Many other developers will 
> continue to profitably use other data models that better meet their 
> needs. XML interoperability is based on exchanging syntax, not 
> representations of data models.

Tim's point was that you couldn't have a native XML programming language 
because there is no data model for XML. Fact is, there are many. Pick one.

Jonathan

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