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On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...> wrote: > It's always data. Not that tells us anything. As I understand, that data means any *information* that can be provided as input or is produced as output, to/from some computational process. So data can be say a string "hello world" which can be produced as output from a software program. Or say, a primitive value 10 which can for example represent a person's age and feed in as an input to some software program. In case of XML, the data is labeled by markup tags (say, <age>10</age>). As I understand about XML, it is a markup language, using which we can design either data (please see, how I describe data above), or say a programming language (in which case, the XML markup cannot be considered a data, but an executable program, say an XSLT program). > Yes, one mans data, is another persons metadata , is another persons > programming language... I would not completely disagree to this. But contradicting a bit to this, I'll never consider a XSLT program as data (an XSLT markup would always be, a representation of executable program for me, conceptually like say a java or C program). -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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