On 07/09/2010 6:54 PM, Micah Dubinko wrote:
> XML is 1-dimensional. It is defined as a sequence of characters.
That's indeed true. Most of our programming languages and data
representation formats are one-dimensional. This is interesting, because
in the past - when people still used punched cards - two-dimensional
formats were much more popular; that is, the significance of a piece of
data was determined by two coordinates, row number and column number.
I guess Excel spreadsheets are three-dimensional - row, column, and
sheet number.
