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>"Alaric B. Snell" wrote:
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>> I think that 'document like structures' needn't be totally
>>isolated from 'data
>> like structures'... but I think that document-like should be a subset of
>> data-like. "Data" is a very general term for 'information',
>>document is a bit
>> more specific.
I don't like either of those words in this usage. All XML documents
are documents. All XML documents contain data. I prefer to talk about
"narrative" documents and "record-like" documents. In narrative
documents order generally matters a great deal and mixed content is
common. In record like documents order is of limited importance and
mixed content is rare.
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