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Also agree. We tried it with markup a couple of times. It's data. Full stop. len From: Liam Quin [mailto:liam@w3.org] On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:49:03AM -0800, Tim Bray wrote: > It seems to me at a pretty deep level that O-O is > about hiding and encapsulation; an object is a thing that can do some things > on demand, don't bother your pretty little head about how it's done. > > It seems to me like XML is oriented exactly 180? in the opposite direction: > Here's the data, here are some labels for the data, here are some ordering > and containment relationships, you're free to do whatever you want with it. +1 > That's a good thing and (I've always the big win) - the provider doesn't > constrain what the receiver does. -Tim Yup, agreed 100% - it's why you can't speak of an XML document as a function, but, rather, an XML processor is a function that takes one or more XML documents as inputs... The semantics in XML are extrinsic, not intrinsic. Liam
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