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On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 22:15 -0700, Ronald Bourret wrote: > Uche Ogbuji wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 21:29 -0700, Ronald Bourret wrote: > > > >>The obvious case is the ability to edit documents (such as XHTML > >>documents) using a schema-specific set of objects. The problem is that > >>current OO languages don't support constructs that would make this easy > >>to do. Not that I'm saying I know what those would be, either... > > > > Heterogeneous arrays. Yes that simple. > > > > The excessive limitations of C++, Java and friends really do serve to > > obscure the obvious, too often :-( > > Ah, yes. I looked at the description of Amara (which uses heterogenous > arrays for mixed content) on my list of XML data binding products [1] > just before reading this mail and thought, "Oh. That's obvious." I do wonder whether Java 5 generics would address this problem (I'm not all that familiar with the implementation). And is this a problem for C#? I thought I remembered that it has a system for heterogeneous arrays. Or am I thinking Cw? > [1] http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLDataBinding.htm Wow. Nice description. Thanks. I'm curious: did you glean it from the manual? Did you try out the code? -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://fourthought.com http://copia.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org Use CSS to display XML, part 2 - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss2-i.html XML Output with 4Suite & Amara - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/04/20/py-xml.html Use XSLT to prepare XML for import into OpenOffice Calc - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-oocalc/ Schema standardization for top-down semantic transparency - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think31.html
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