Re: What is the “standard form” of data?
"Liam R. E. Quin" <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 18:51 +0100, Michael Kay wrote: > > > Database technology, centred on the capabilities of large direct- > access disks, emerged at about the same time as UNIX, and the initial > design of UNIX failed to take account of it You could equally well say that [relational] database designers failed to learn from Unix. It might simply be fairer to say the two groups worked in different domains, much as, years later, data-oriented and document-first XML people didn't always see eye to eye. -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: [email protected] subscribe: [email protected] List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php