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BTW, the reason I think OO design is more of a subjective experience is that object do so much more than manipulate data, and has larger scope for creativity. Objects are good, data models are good; they can be made to work together better, IMNSHO. > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:30 AM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: APIs, messaging > > > After reading the last week or so of messages, I'm wondering > if maybe we're picking up on a division which is kind of but > not quite parallel to the documents vs. data division. > > It seems like we have people who want to use XML the same way they've > used data structures in programs, building tightly-defined > APIs to close > tolerances the same way they've built programs for the last > few decades. > APIs are built and documented and developers have to conform to the > rules of the API to use them. > > There's another group of people who want to use XML to get out of that > world of close tolerances and into a much less precise approach where > messages are exchanged and things may or may not happen > depending on the > understandings of the sender and the receiver. Message formats may or > may not be documented and developers can use information for processes > quite different from the original design. > > Does that seem like a reasonable breakdown of the situation? > > Simon St.Laurent > XML: A Primer, 3rd Edition - just released! > http://www.simonstl.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... >
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