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Re: Mapping: Schema - Java

• From: Ken MacLeod <ken@b...>
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: 10 Mar 2000 13:22:50 -0600

Stefan Haustein <haustein@k...> writes:

> > "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? 

How do you mean "like in the array case"?

For reference, using the 8.4.1.1 generic record serialization to
serialize objects seems natural to me.

  -- Ken

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