From: P A Hill & E V Goodall (goodhill_at_xmission.com)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 17:26:52 CEST
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Richard Knapp wrote:
> 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.
He has choosen Field and then drawn an analogy to 'columns'. I'd say this is
a reasonable way to explain by example. Using a DB term he would have called it
a column straight out :-)
Do you have a better word than "field" we could use to stay away from
attribute or element, both specifically defined in XML?
Now he could explicitly say that a field may map to an element or
an attribute of another element and not just leave it to be surmised by the reader.
-Paul
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