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If you have XML that's created in response to a request to a web service
it would seem to fit some definitions of "transient" yet the web service
itself could have many unpredictable and loosely bound clients...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@saxonica.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 9:35 AM
> To: 'Peter Hunsberger'; 'Costello, Roger L.'
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Better design: "flatter is better" or
> "nesting is better" ?
>
> > > 1. Persistent XML: the XML document is persistent.
> > Applications operate
> > > directly on the XML document.
> > >
> > > 2. Transient XML: upon arrival at its destination the data may be
> > > transformed into some other format (language objects,
> > relational database,
> > > etc) that applications work with.
> > >
> > > 3. Application XML: the XML document is the application.
> > > Question:
> >
> > Umm, isn't that only two dimensions? Aren't persistent and
> transient
> > just points on a single temporal axis? (Which brings me back to my
> > question of when does a document change from being persistent to
> > transient or vice versa?) I think at best you can have a
> single axis
> > that measure the length of time for which the document
> exists. Still
> > not sure that this helps any, but lets continue...
>
> I don't think it's the lifespan of the document that matters, it's the
> number of people/applications who will read it and the
> predictability of the
> way they will use it. Transient = 1 predictable recipient,
> Persistent = many
> unpredictable recipients.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
>
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