Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

Working with XML as Data

When working with XML, you often want to have a system that can handle a large number of XML documents. XML documents can be classified into two areas: document-centric XML documents and data-centric XML documents. Both have a different design philosophy associated with them. Document-centric XML documents are for presentation and human-readable format. Data-centric XML documents are for messaging and transaction management. They can have attributes of each other, but the design is fundamentally different in various aspects.

Document-Centric XML Documents

XML files that have presentation information associated with them are normally considered document-centric XML documents. Normally, these XML documents will be viewed ...