OASIS Mailing List ArchivesView the OASIS mailing list archive below
or browse/search using MarkMail.

 


Help: OASIS Mailing Lists Help | MarkMail Help

 


 

   Re: [xml-dev] A multi-step approach on defining object-orientednature of

[ Lists Home | Date Index | Thread Index ]

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 00:47, Margarita Isayeva wrote:
> 1. XML document: persistent angle-bracketed
> representation of our data. 

No, this description is too data centric!

I'd say that a XML document is a piece of text in which a hierarchical
structure has been made easily readable through an angle brackets based
punctuation system.

Representing some data is only one of its applications and only one of
its interpretations :-) ...

> 2. DOM: in-memory representation of an XML document.
> 
> 1+2:
> DOM: in-memory representation of representation of our
> data
> 
> So far so good...
> 
> 3. DOM: a set of interfaces
> 4. Interface: a specification of implementation of
> something whose implementation is susceptible of
> specification.
> 
> Now putting it all together:
> 
> "DOM: a specification of implementation of
> representation of representation of our data".
> 
> Any problem with this definition?

Yes: it assumes that your XML document is a representation of some
data...

Eric
-- 
Rendez-vous à Paris.
                          http://www.technoforum.fr/integ2002/index.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric van der Vlist       http://xmlfr.org            http://dyomedea.com
(W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema
------------------------------------------------------------------------





 

News | XML in Industry | Calendar | XML Registry
Marketplace | Resources | MyXML.org | Sponsors | Privacy Statement

Copyright 2001 XML.org. This site is hosted by OASIS