Overview of LMNL
- LMNL is defined as a data model
- Not built on XML
- Intended to be friendly with XML
- “Good fences make good neighbors”
- (XML is the farm; LMNL is outside the fence)
- LMNL has a syntax, but is not a syntax
- Other syntaxes can express LMNL
- Including XML
- ... using any of various conventions to represent overlap