- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:47:30 -0700
- To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
- Cc: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>, Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>, "Henry S.Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "public-xhtml2@w3.org WG" <public-xhtml2@w3.org>, "wai-xtech@w3.org WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
ashok malhotra wrote: > There is, btw, an XML Data Model: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/ > All the best, Ashok > And it's one of many. I'm not saying we don't need data models. I'm saying we need different ones for different use cases, even when working on the same documents. A single data model does not fit all. There is no such thing as the one true data model for XML. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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