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XML Unites/Divides Two Very Different Data Visions

• Data Folks
  • All the world is a database
  • I know how big everything is and its data type
  • Things come in this order/arrangement
  • That’s the whole point of information!
• Text Folks
  • Databases are limited
  • I have free-flowing content
  • If you have to ask how long a paragraph is or how many times it may repeat, you don’t understand
  • I need named things that float somewhere inside other things (like a Part Number or a Person’s Name somewhere inside a paragraph)
  • That’s the whole point of information!