- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:39:14 -0400
- To: Tyler Close <tyler@waterken.com>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
At 12:51 PM -0400 10/22/03, Tyler Close wrote: >Ok, the message should be "Syntax is essential", not "Data models >are bad". The problem is not that data models are bad. It's that data model are local. Ny data model is not your data model, and need not be. Syntax is exchangeable and interoperable. Data models aren't. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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