Re: [xml-dev] The subsetting has begun

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Thomas B. Passin <>
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2003-03-06T01:47:13Z
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Re: [xml-dev] The subsetting has begun
[Sean McGrath]
> No. The tree is in the eye of the parser which in turn is in the eye of
the
> XML 1.0 grammar production rules.

Well, actually, the XML 1.0 Rec gives you __ containment__ (nested sets).
If you like to say that a tree is isomorphic to a series of nested objects,
then you can get your tree.  For example, there is a way to represent a
hierarchy in an sql database using nested sets - containment -  which you
would never recognize as a tree - see

http://www.intelligententerprise.com/001020/celko1_1.shtml

Cheers,

Tom P