RE: Impact of XML on Data Modeling

> Nomenclature is a funny old thing.  I would argue that you 
> don't access data via a logical model, you access it via a 
> physical model.  

I'm afraid I was brought up on the notion that the logical model is what
programmers can see, the physical model is what's hidden from their sight. I
think that usage is very common in the database world. Of course, with XML,
very little is hidden - until you put it in a database.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/