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At 10:07 AM -0700 5/24/03, Joshua Allen wrote:
>If it's not for XML, then what the heck is it for? If it's not a data
>model, then what the heck is it?
>
>Any sane person can see that it specifies a data model for XML.
There is a world of difference between *a* data model for XML and
*the* data model for XML. There are many data models for XML, none of
which can plausibly claim to be *the* data model for XML.
XML data models include the XPath 1.0 model, the XPath 2.0 + XQuery
model, the Infoset, the PSVI, the DOM data model, the JDOM data
model, and many more all of which are related but have subtle and
important differences. There are also things like the SAX model or
the models exposed by different data binding APIs that really don't
look much like these at all.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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