RE: [xml-dev] Syntax + object model

> >What you are describing is a "data model", not an "object model".
> 
> Admittedly, programming terminology isn't my domain. Why are XQuery
and
> XPath data models, while DOM is refered to as an object model?

A data model describes the data over which programming models can
operate.  Objects *can* be used to represent data, of course, but
objects are more typically used to organize code or libraries of
behavior, and "object model" usually means "API".