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> 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. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Track chair, XML/Web Services One Boston: http://www.xmlconference.com/ Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management, Part 7 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think12.html Keeping pace with James Clark - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/libra ry/x-jclark.html Python and XML development using 4Suite, Part 3: 4RDF - http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/xml-onlinecourse-bytitle/8A 1EA5A2CF4621C386256BBB006F4CEC
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