Re: Entities and fields

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On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:43:35 +1000, Peter MATTHEWS wrote:

> This flags up that I should have included some more definitions under
> "Other Definitions", especially as XML's use of terms is different to ...

>[snip]

> Field
> A property of an Entity. In a database table, the fields are normally
> represented by
> the columns in the table. For example, "start date" is a field of the
> entity "trip",

Excellent. However, the definition for Field starts to explain it in
database terms.

Nothing against databases. However, that is not the goal. IF XML
references are not used, then neither should database references.
FWIW...

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