XML data representation
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If I take data (1,2,3,a,b,c,..) and I put it in XML form
(, < b >, )
does that mean that data becomes information because of XML? Does XML turn data into information by representing it in tags? I am also reading here in a slideshow: "In JDOM, every XML tree is approached as a document even though the content has nothing to do with documents". I looked up the definition of 'document' on dictionary.com and it states that a document is meant as being informative. 'informative' means 'to convey information'. Then, if the purpose of XML is to represent data into information, why does the content of an XML tree supposedly not have anything to do with a document and therefore nothing to do with information? This is confusing. Perhaps the author of that slideshow was using different semantics than I have in my mind right now. Any thoughts on this?
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If I take data (1,2,3,a,b,c,..) and I put it in XML form
(, < b >, )
does that mean that data becomes information because of XML? Does XML turn data into information by representing it in tags? I am also reading here in a slideshow: "In JDOM, every XML tree is approached as a document even though the content has nothing to do with documents". I looked up the definition of 'document' on dictionary.com and it states that a document is meant as being informative. 'informative' means 'to convey information'. Then, if the purpose of XML is to represent data into information, why does the content of an XML tree supposedly not have anything to do with a document and therefore nothing to do with information? This is confusing. Perhaps the author of that slideshow was using different semantics than I have in my mind right now. Any thoughts on this?
I actually view XML documents as a datatable, and in fact you can store a datatable to XML format by the ToXML command.