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Paul Prescod wrote: > > > My impression of Excelon is that it does not "hide behind a DOM interface" > in the sense that I cannot pump in arbitrary objects conforming to > arbitrary IDL or DDL schemas and expect them to present a "DOM interface" > to the world. Excelon implements a DOM interface to XML documents, not to > arbitrary data objects. That doesn't make it a bad product, but I don't > think it is the product Mark is describing. I imagine that the (imaginary) > product that Mark is describing would allow you to specify your objects in > IDL, manipulate them as ordinary object/method/property Java or C++ > objects and get a DOM interface to them "for free" when you want it. I > don't think that that product exists. > Actually, if you take my XMOP project which serializes COM/IDL described and Java objects into a DOM interface, and bolt it onto eXcelon, this is pretty much exactly what this would do. XMOP uses either Java reflection or COM typelibraries (which are compiled IDL and are close but not quite full fidelity to MIDL itself), and serializes the object into either a DOM or an XML stream. Jonathan Borden http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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