• From: ht@i... (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: stephengreenubl@g...
• Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 11:17:15 +0100

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stephengreenubl@g... writes:

> So making an 'employee' element  a child of an 'employer' element
> clearly implies some semantics that the employer 'has' the employees.

Not without some background agreement/assertions/documentation.  You
might find the following of interest:

Normal Form Conventions for XML Representations of Structured Data
        http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/normalForms.html

ht
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• References:
  • RE: 'is-a' Relationships in XML?
    • From: "stephengreenubl@g..." <stephengreenubl@g...>