xml-dev - Re: Grooves: why are "data" designed as properties and not nodes ?

[Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>]

"Anders W. Tell" <anderst@toolsmiths.se> writes:

> Thanks for the clarifications, I think Im getting a feel for how
> groves works.
> 
> However my initial question remains, why are "data" located in
> properties and not nodes.
> 
> If actual "data" where to be moved into Nodes the Grove model would
> still be well defined and maybe even simpler to understand and work
> with.

I'm not seeing what you're seeing.  I don't see how a property is
somehow seperate from the node that carries it, i.e. you retrieve data
by accessing a field (property) of the node.  Properties don't exist
seperately from their node (the _values_ can be retrieved and used
seperately).

-- 
  Ken MacLeod
  ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us

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