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Another option is to stop kicking against the traces. If everyone
understands "data-oriented" to be equivalent to "record-like" and
"document-oriented" same as "narrative", which I believe is the case, why
worry about it? The whole discussion reminds me of programmers who want to
break an API to give things "better" names.
Bob Foster
From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>
> I agree - I've never liked them either. I like "record-like" and
> "narrative". Another option is to rename "data-oriented" to
> "exchange-oriented" (i.e. used in an exchange between trading partners).
>
> Kind Regards,
> Joe Chiusano
> Booz | Allen | Hamilton
>
> Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> >
> > At 11:07 AM -0400 8/13/03, Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> >
> > >In any event, I believe the "data-oriented" and "document-oriented" XML
> > >divide is being blurred these days [1].
> >
> > I *hate* those terms. All XML documents contain data. All XML data is
> > found in documents. No exceptions. I've been pushing the alternative
> > terms record-like and narrative, which I think are more descriptive,
> > for a few years now, but so far without much success. :-(
> > --
> >
> > 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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