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Don''t define a data model. (Business Documents).

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-NOV-02 		Format: Online - approximately 1090 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Traditional application development dictates that you define your data model first, and then design your applications around the data. As information changes and moves at ever-increasing speeds, being dependent on a rigid data model places a limit on how sophisticated integrated applications can get. But with extensible XML, that limitation is removed--applications can be separated from the information model in the same way that HTML and XML separate presentation from content.

Complex Applications

The Internet and XML have given us the promise of ubiquitous connectivity and a zero-latency universe with instant access to all information. The trouble is, we now want and often expect ubiquitous connectivity and a zero-latency universe. Applications are required to be more complex and broader than ever before. But this is old news.

The only way to build these complex applications is to decouple the entities. Just as the client/server movement decoupled the back end from the application and Web servers have decoupled presentation for greater flexibility, the...

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