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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."

-- Ron

[1] http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLDataBinding.htm


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