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I'm not sure I agree with your comments on pull vs. push based processing. I do agree that mixed content is the probably the most relevant differentiator between data-centric & document-centric uses of XML. However I don't see where this leads to the position that there is antagonism between the folks that tend to create XML documents that contain mixed content and those that don't.
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From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com]
Sent: Fri 6/6/2003 11:05 AM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] Doc vs. Data
At 2003-06-06 10:51 -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>Does anyone have any concrete differences between such uses of XML that
>require such divisive terms as "doc vs data people".
Would mixed content suffice?
Data-oriented data can often be processed entirely with a "pull" model
(XSLT or XQuery), while document-oriented mixed content needs to be
processed with a "push" model (XSLT template rules).
I'm not sure I've ever seen mixed content used in a data-oriented model,
but mixed content is very important to document-oriented information.
Does this help?
.................. Ken
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