Re: [xml-dev] What is the “standard form ” of data?
Peter Flynn <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.xml.devel |
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| Organization | Silmaril Consultants |
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On 02/09/2022 03:19, Liam R. E. Quin wrote: [...] > 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, I think of them more as levels in the data model: the database, relational or not, manages abstractions which elide large parts of the Unix view of data as being unlabelled, line-oriented, delimited, plain text. > much as, years later, data-oriented and document-first XML people > didn't always see eye to eye. Still don't, in some quarters :-) Peter _______________________________________________________________________ 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