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At 03:31 PM 6/23/97 -0500, Alex Milowski wrote: >> >> From: Kevin Grimes@LIANT on 06/23/97 02:14 PM >> >> May I suggest that the XML API be expressed in language neutral IDL rather >> than Java. I believe the main impact this would have on current >> interfaces/implementations would be to the member function that actually >> loads/processes the document--you'd probably want to replace the Java >> InputStream or URL parameter with a String (BSTR in Microsoft's IDL)--as in >> the following lines from my xml.idl... > >I like the idea of using IDL. I have to confess that I haven't had much >of an opportunity to use it (although I would have liked to have). So, where >are the IDL "experts" that we can bring onboard to get that part correct? Hmmmm...I just talked to one of our IDL experts, who wasn't convinced that this would be a helpful direction. Is there really an advantage to defining it in IDL first? The IDL could be created after the specification is finished in Java, and the Java-based specification is probably easier to create, understand, and test. I *like* making things language independent, but at this stage, I'm leery of adding complexity that doesn't add any new conceptual power. A Java-based specification can be translated into IDL later, and until the specification has actually been *implemented* in more than one language, the IDL doesn't buy you much. Jonathan *************************************************************************** Jonathan Robie jwrobie@m... http://www.mindspring.com/~jwrobie POET Software, 3207 Gibson Road, Durham, N.C., 27703 http://www.poet.com *************************************************************************** xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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