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Re: XML as "passive data"

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• Subject: Re: XML as "passive data"
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: 22 Oct 2002 18:56:03 +0200
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On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 18:43, Mike Champion wrote:

> I think that's an extremely important point that doesn't get much
> emphasis.  There seems to be a presupposition that OO approaches to XML app
> design are de rigeur .... but the whole point of XML is to break the
> encapsulation of data!  Am I missing something here?

But my active data can be your passive data :-)

A XSLT stylesheet is a XML document which is active for a XSLT processor
and passive for any other XML application!

And a passive XML document which triggers some reaction somewhere
becomes active in this context...

That being said, you're very right IMO: XML "late binding" qualities
come from its passiveness and if you make XML Object Oriented and mix
treatment definitions to the data, you loose all of it.

Eric

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