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Content-Oriented, Structure-Oriented, and Presentation-Oriented Schemas
Overview Content-oriented schemas come in a variety of types, but they tend to receive more use in data-centric applications. Content-oriented schemas typically reflect a model of how the information works in the 'real world', using hierarchies to reflect containment relationships. A schema describing parts for a toy might use an element describing the entire toy as its root element, and then have various subassemblies as child elements. Those subassemblies might then contain smaller assemblies and parts, all the way down to the smallest wires and springs. Another schema describing financial transactions might include all parties to the transaction and the terms of that transaction as child elements grouped together under a parent transaction element. Content-oriented schemas can be very useful for working with 'pure' data in situations where the structure of the information itself is more important than any particular presentation of that information. Content-oriented schemas often make useful modules for inclusion in structure-oriented schemas or transformation to purely presentation-oriented information, but raw presentation of the information contained in them is often difficult or meaningless to human readers.
| Publisher | Extensibility | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 1 |
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