[Xml-bin] An attempt to sort things out

[Al Snell]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Stefan Zier wrote:

> So the layer model is:
> 
> Application Data
> DOM/SAX Data
> Textual XML Data

> Input on this model would be greatly appreciated. Am I reinventing the wheel
> here?

Well, it looks like a summary of the ISO OSI 7-layer model for networking
:-)

The 7-layer model goes:

Application layer (application data)

Presentation layer (specifies the data types such as strings
	and dates and integers)

Session layer (hmmm... in this context, probably specifies the way the
	XML data is split into a tree; the syntax of "<".

Tranport layer (Headers. <?xml version='1.0 ?> <!DOCTYPE ... >)

Network layer (Directory structure)

Data link layer (How the filesystem delimits different files on disk)

Physical layer (how hard disks work)

The transport and network layers were (funnily enough) defined in very
network-centric terms, so my translation is ad libbing a bit, but apart
from that it's fairly isomorphic.

ABS

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