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> Another XML 2001 presentation by Stephen Kirkham made similar > points > http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml2001/papers/html/04-05- > 01.html > "In the Object oriented world data is a second class citizen. > Objects control access to and provide operations on data. ... > XML however starts to reverse the clock, it represents a > change in course back to a more data centric world, one in > which data has a life of it's own. Data has effectively > broken free of its object boundaries" Quite true, and nicely put. I've advocated this very POV several times on this list, including in the discussion of XML as "post-OO". I continue this thread in a recent column for Intel http://cedar.intel.com/cgi-bin/ids.dll/content/content.jsp?cntKey=Generic+Editorial%3a%3axml_p1&cntType=IDS_EDITORIAL&catCode=CAN Free reg required: -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@f... +1 303 583 9900 x 101 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA XML strategy, XML tools (http://4Suite.org), knowledge management
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