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Re: Mapping: Schema - Java

• From: Stefan Haustein <haustein@k...>
• To: "Box, Don" <dbox@d...>
• Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:11:43 +0100

> "Box, Don" wrote:
> 
> Right. The SOAP approach is similar in spirit to the SML approach - that is,
> if your goal is to use XML as a serialziation format for your application's
> types, Section 8 defines a uniform method for translating standard programming
> language constructs (e.g., struct, class, array) into XML and XML Schema. This
> method is largely a formalization of element-normal-form encoding (which is
> a/the core concept in SML).

Hm, if I read the specs right, something looking more or less like 
object serialization is described in "8.4.1.1. Generic Records".

Wouldn't it be more appropiate to have an own section for object
serialization (e.g. 8.4.1.2)? The "generic record" serialization
makes it uneccesarily difficult for objects to serialize 
themselves completely: The object description is broken into 
the type attribute of the property element and the object
content itself. Couln't objects just always be serialized
like in the array case? 

Best regards

Stefan

-- 
Stefan Haustein
University of Dortmund
Computer Science VIII
www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de

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