In a message dated 9/7/2010 8:53:59 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, costello@m... writes:

XML is a multiple node type , multiple data occurrence database. This  makes it basically a three dimensional database. The nodes are located vertically & horizontally and the data is located by occurrence value. This would allow any single node and its data to be identified uniquely without navigation.

 

        /Mike