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> Hi Sean,
>
> > 2. Applications come and go but data lives forever (or can do). The
> > trick of making your data outlive your applications is to divorce
> > application-level data models from the XML. Burying data model
> > information into the XML binds the XML to the application in a way
> > which will bite when the application is changed or retired.
> >
> > 3. Doing so significantly increases the semantic consensus required by
> > communicating processes to share data. The beauty of *HAVING* to
> > create your own data model[1] from a stream of Unicode with angle
> > brackets is that you do not have to share any semantics or
> > expectations other than Unicode with the originator of that XML. Far
> > from being a burden, it is a *privilege* to be able to parse the XML
> > and treat the data the way you want to, rather than have a data model
> > imposed on you.
>
> I passed your message along to a colleague. Here are her comments:
>
> XML is a syntax. It has no data model.
This sounds like the dictator's logic. "We have no secret police, so how is
it you say our secret police tortured you?"
> So how would one "bury a data model" in it even if one wanted to?
You do so by adding in an XSD schema location pointer. Then, suddenly, when I
run it unsuspectingly through my XPath2 engine, drags in all sorts of unwanted
magic into my processing.
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