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The XPath data model is a data model for XML, is as close to the XML infoset as you can get and is standardized.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck then it's a duck.
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From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
Sent: Sat 5/24/2003 9:38 AM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Syntax + object model
joshuaa@microsoft.com (Joshua Allen) writes:
>XML *has* a very useful standardized data model [1] that coexists with
>the serialization syntax, and I predict that both will survive for a
>very long time.
>
>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-query-datamodel-20011220/
No, that document is quite explicitly the "W3C XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0
Data Model". It makes no claims whatsoever to be a standardized data
model for XML, nor should it.
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Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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