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Re: constructive (was RE: Markup perspective not cod

• To: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@n...>
• Subject: Re: constructive (was RE: Markup perspective not code)
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 22:42:29 -0600
• Cc: "'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@m...>, "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from "Didier PH Martin" <martind@n...> of "Sun, 04 Aug 2002 17:29:09 EDT." <000d01c23bfd$f9274420$6401a8c0@didierhome>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> Hi Dare,
> 
> Dare said:
> I like the fact that I can use XPP, JDOM and Castor in Java or their
> equivalents in the .NET framework without having to deal with APIs that
> are inconsistent with the rest of the class libraries, fail to utilize
> the programming language idioms and ignore general language specific
> design patterns. 
>  
> Didier replies:
> Reading again your message I think I understand what you mean. I agree
> that stuff like the DOM is not the best stuff in town. Instead of using
> CORBA definitions, a spec could simply state how we define the object
> hierarchies and the object types (the one most commonly used in several
> typed languages).

Huh?  That's exactly what IDL is.  IDL is not an exclusive CORBA technology.  
I think you have the wrong idea.  If mapping to "object hierarchies and the 
object types" were a good way to define an API for XML, then DOM nailed it: 
IDL is perfect for this.  The point is precisely that it is *not* a good way 
to define an API for XML, so I don't see anything in what you say that would 
have been better than DOM.


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