Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - RE: [xml-dev] Better design: "flatter is better" or "nesting is better" ? [Thread Next] Re: [xml-dev] Better design: "flatter is better" or "nesting is better" ?To: Anne Thomas Manes <atmanes@-----.---> Date: 10/4/2005 6:54:00 PM On 10/4/05, Anne Thomas Manes <atmanes@g...> wrote: > Perhaps "storage" is the wrong word, because it implies persistence to some > type of data store, but the basic concept is valid. Either the XML is > persistent or it is transient. If the XML is persistent, then the > application works directly on the XML. If the XML is transient, then the XML > is transformed into some other format (language objects, relational > database, etc.) that the application works with. I had a chunk of XML I was working with hanging around for the last 24 hours or so. It's gone now. Was it persistent or transient? Where's the dividing line and why would I (or my XML) care? -- Peter Hunsberger | ||||||
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