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Java class != XML entity

• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:45:51 -0400

David G. Durand writes:

 [writing about scoping in Java classes]

 > The equivalent to this policy for XML would be for the "minimization
 > declarations" to be local to the _entity_. 

Reasonable people may disagree: many of us believe (from SGML
experience, especially) that entities are simply slightly-constrained
storage units with no other special significance -- if Java had
#include files, then those would be the equivalents of XML entities.
As far as I may be allowed to compare tropical and temperate tree
fruit, the equivalent of a Java class is a complete XML document.

The problem is that we don't have a good name for a collection of XML
documents working tightly together, the way that a collection of Java
classes can work in an applet or application -- "web" seems too loose,
and "docuverse" seems too New-Age.  Any suggestions?


All the best,


David

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