• To: Vladimir Gapeyev <vgapeyev@s...>
• Subject: Re: XML-with-datatypes (was....)
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:24:09 -0400
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Vladimir Gapeyev wrote:
> 
> This is, I guess, the "document-oriented culture", which has its 
> peculiar needs, as you describe. But there is also the data-oriented 
> culture, with its own peculiar needs. All what I was hypothesizing, was 
> that the needs of both could be covered by single syntax and a single 
> data model, without inconveniencing either of the cultures.
> 

The beauty of XML is that the syntax can be shared without sharing the 
data models. Data models are not interoperable. Your model is not mine 
which is not Walter's; and that's OK. A standardized data model is a 
bug, not a feature.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
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