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Hi, There are some interesting thoughts here, and I think your assertions are based on the common belief which says "use composition when you can, use inheritance when you have to". While I have no dispute with this, I'm wondering if you are saying that you only need one and not the other. Specifically, I do not think that only using compound documents can solve issues of customization which have been previously discussed. My concern is, given an industry standard schema, how do I use this internally when I know I will have to augment the standard schema with information specific to my company, dept., and application. Certainly, not all players will be using the standard schema as is. Some customization will be necessary. I am not talking about fragments here either, so perhaps we have different issues if your focus on composition is based on the use of fragments. Thanks, -Avneet Roger L. Costello wrote: > I would like to make two assertions: > > (1) Compound documents are necessary for the success of XML. > > (2) Focusing on inheritance is of lesser importance than focusing on > composition. > > Also the object community has come to the consensus that composition (black > box reuse) enables more robust development than does inheritance (white box > reuse). Analogously, I would assert that the focus in XML should be on > enabling compound documents rather than on enabling inheritance. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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