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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
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