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Re: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)

• To: mc@x... (Mike Champion)
• Subject: Re: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:49:17 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <YVZWWU71I1YWR94EB1KERP96D8IFSN.3d8b840d@MChamp> from "Mike Champion" at Sep 20, 2002 04:24:45 PM

Mike Champion scripsit:

> [...] non-namespaced well-formed XML [...]

I hasten to mention that XOM works fine with non-namespaced XML;
it just doesn't have a Level 1 interface that *only* works for
non-namespaced XML.

> I also appreciated the point that John Cowan made about XOM's
> conceptual integrity.  As we all know, W3C DOM got the way it is
> partly because it is the proverbial camel designed by a committee.

Worse, because it also had to be at least somewhat compatible with the
old browser DOMs, which were by no means compatible with each other.
As you know.

> [L]et a hundred
> refactorizations of DOM/JDOM/dom4j/proprietary APIs bloom,
> create an ecology of competing codes, and let Father Darwin sort
> them out.

Hear, hear!

-- 
There is / One art                      John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
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With art- / Lessness                     -- Piet Hein

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