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Re: [xml-dev] XML Schema as a data modeling tool
- From: Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com>
- To: Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@yahoo.de>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 08:19:23 +0530
I think, two primary models for which XML instances can be used are data
(to represent messages, records etc) and documents (for e.g HTML like,
where there may be lot of mixed content). If we look at modeling data
aspects, I think XML can be used to represent both hierarchic and
network structures. XML Infoset inherently looks hierarchic, but it can
be mentally and technically be mapped to non hierarchic structures.
Given
this nature of XML, I think XML Schemas can be used to model data in
general (semantics can be built on top of XML Schema features). But I
think, there are other techniques available, which should be used to do
enterprise scale data modeling in general (for e.g, ER diagrams, class
diagrams etc), which are specialized for data modeling (they provide all
the features out-of-the-box and are already very robust).
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