Re: Keeping relational design with XML

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From: Michael Rys [MSFT] (mrys_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:34:58 -0700

This is a category of problems associated with different parties (companies,
applications etc.) using terms that are semantically related but different
or semantically not related but the same. This miscommunication of meaning
is what makes interoperability between different database schemata or
database and application schema more difficult. It is often used as a
counter-argument to the claim that XML helps interop. The point is that the
issue is not specific to XML. XML has other benefits in interop (can
represent hierarchies which CSV cannot, parsers are widely available, is
based on Unicode (thus international)) but does not address this.

Best regards
Michael

"Anith Sen" <anith@bizdatasolutions.com> wrote in message
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> Michael,
>
> Can you please provide a brief description of, perhaps with an example,
> what semantic heterogeneity is?
>
> I assume it means some kind of miscommunication of meanings. BTW, I did
> some googling, the term is being used extensively by the research
> community, but could not find a meaningful definition in the context of
> databases.
>
> --
> Anith
>

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