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Alex had been working on and discussing those concepts on comp.text.sgml long before we had XML. He is a very forward thinking guy. We discussed it then because of the threads on mapping from SGML to objects and all the mismatches of that if one wanted a generalized system. DOM actually bridged a lot of that with a high level interface, awkward though it is. Data binding is a good idea, but the problem for the SGML systems was the requirements, particularly in IETMs, of reuse among different services (the military kind) that did not typicaly accept each other's document formats so the system had to accept multiple document types and reuse them. The IETM database design (IETMDB) tried to solve that but the best implementations were...sigh... relational. It had also been discussed in the CALS enterprise papers but object systems of the time were too immature and the notion that stepping back to data-centrisms too "backward looking". There's a lot to be said for cheap PCs and cheaper CPUs with even cheaper RAM. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Fuchs, Matthew [mailto:matthew.fuchs@c...] That being said, there is no reason one can't layer that kind of view of a document over the DOM, so one accesses the DOM through interfaces that behave in the expected way (from a Java/C++ perspective) but maintain a DOM underneath. Alex Milowski actually suggested something along these lines a long time ago in the early days of SOX.
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