Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - RE: [xml-dev] Ontolgies, Mappings and Transformations (was RE: Web Services/SOA) [Thread Next] Re: [xml-dev] XML-aware programming language?To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@-------.---.---> Date: 12/2/2004 5:00:00 PM Elliotte Harold wrote: > Daniela Florescu wrote: > > >> XQuery and XSLT do have a data model that will stay at the foundation of >> XML processing in the future. I think it is too late by now to deny that. > > This is *a* data model. It is not *the* data model. There is no one XML > data model, and there will not be. The XQuery/XPath 2.0 Data Model will > only be the foundation for XQuery and XSLT 2. Many other developers will > continue to profitably use other data models that better meet their > needs. XML interoperability is based on exchanging syntax, not > representations of data models. Tim's point was that you couldn't have a native XML programming language because there is no data model for XML. Fact is, there are many. Pick one. Jonathan | ||||||
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