xml-dev - Re: XML and inheritance and transformation of representations

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

There's a tradeoff between isomorphism to the application data model
and utility/validatability of the XML form.  There are some useful
ideas around, some in the direction of marshalling/unmarshalling
_without_ schemas [1], some on what it would mean to specify a
declarative mapping between document model and application model [2].

ht

[1] http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/microsoft-serializing.html
[2] http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/LayeredArch/
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