• To: "'W. E. Perry'" <wperry@f...>, XML DEV <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: A multi-step approach on defining object-oriented nature of DOM
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:37:05 -0500

Interoperability can be achieved by autonomous applications 
that inquire of a source what types it can produce and being 
able to recognize those types.   There is no free lunch here.
Discovery-based systems will work reasonably well.  The web 
functions because the HTTP operations are fixed and their 
semantics are well understood, and because one dominant 
type (HTML) rules the majority of transactions.

len


From: W. E. Perry [mailto:wperry@f...]

It is only the output--not some contractual form of
input--which makes each of those applications of interest and which, when published
in a Web-accessible way, is the basis on ongoing interoperability with still further
applications.

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