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Zach Frey
> In any case, XML has a certain model of what data looks like, regardless
of
> the actual tags defined. All data is hierarchical, for instance. There's
> nothing you can do about it, it is intrinsic to XML, a part of the data
> model which defined by level 2.
Specifically, an XML document is a tree of nodes (thus the hierarchy).
So yes, XML does impose a tree structure on the data representation. Fortunately, a large number of data models are representable via trees (for instance, a list is simply a VERY flat tree with every node a leaf).
FYI,
Zach Frey
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of
> the actual tags defined. All data is hierarchical, for instance. There's
> nothing you can do about it, it is intrinsic to XML, a part of the data
> model which defined by level 2.
Specifically, an XML document is a tree of nodes (thus the hierarchy).
So yes, XML does impose a tree structure on the data representation. Fortunately, a large number of data models are representable via trees (for instance, a list is simply a VERY flat tree with every node a leaf).
FYI,
Zach Frey
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