RE: [xml-dev] Is an element's name metadata?

[Dave Pawson <dpawson@nildram.co.uk>]

At 15:46 25/06/2003 -0400, Allen Razdow wrote:
>IMO, because field-names (column names) in a relational database are
>referred to as meta-data along with the rest of the database schema, XML
>element names, and the schema/DTD are likewise meta-data relative to the
>data in the element.  Clearly, "meta" is a recursive concept.  As they said
>on Broadway, "Anything you can do I can do meta!"....:)

Has anyone done any serious research into this docheads vs dataheads divide..
if it exists?

regards DaveP