Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >comp.text.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - What is a "data object" in W3C terminology ? >Thread Next - Re: What is a "data object" in W3C terminology ? Re: What is a "data object" in W3C terminology ?To: NULL Date: 11/2/2009 7:03:00 PM Ludovic Kuty wrote: > > [snip] > > Does "data object" mean simply "something" or "something digital" or > has it a more precise meaning than that ? > Technically, Ludovic, a data object means any single and self-contained stream of bytes (which can be a file, a data output from a relational or other database or even a transmitted string of text over the internet) which contains *only* the data upon which operations might be carried out and which does *not* contain the operations which may be carried out upon the data. In short, it is a "piece of information" kept as a single unit. | ||||||
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