RE: [xml-dev] Holographic XML

["stephengreenubl@gmail.com" <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>]

Links within a line between points make the line two dimensional. Links between lines make them three dimensional. 
In XML points or nodes are related to eachother making the XML two dimensional. It follows that relationships between instances make for three dimensional XML. Such might be found in a collection or database holding and relating several instances or by using XLink or in the case of XHTML, hyperlinks.

Best regards, Steve 
Stephen D Green
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Hunsberger
Sent:  07/09/2010 7:15:02 pm
To: Micah Dubinko
Cc: Costello, Roger L.; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject:  Re: [xml-dev] Holographic XML

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Micah Dubinko
<Micah.Dubinko@marklogic.com> wrote:
> XML is 1-dimensional. It is defined as a sequence of characters. This is true even of, for example, an SVG document.
>
> There is no need for XML to "expand" to more dimensions, though higher-level layers might come in to play.
>

I'd disagree: a sequence of characters is a lower level representation
than XML; XML adds semantic and syntactic representation on top of
that and gives you much more than a "sequence of characters."

-- 
Peter Hunsberger

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