re: XML SIG 17 September: Elliotte Rusty Harold on What's Wrong withXML APIs (and How to Fix Them)

[Martin Klang <martin@o-xml.org>]

-- "W. E. Perry" wrote:

> Elliotte Rusty Harold has spent the last year exhaustively documenting
> the existing APIs, and this convinced him that better APIs are
> desperately needed.

or maybe in many cases you could do away with the API's altogether?

look at XSLT, a complete programming language that _is_ XML and thus
doesn't need an API. XSLT has it's own shortcomings, especially if you try
to use it as a procedural language substitute, but the paradigm of writing
XML processing logic _in XML_ is, in my opinion, very powerful indeed.

I believe the same approach could be used to create an object-oriented
procedural language, which (as by chance..) is what i've been busying
myself with lately. If you're interested, the work i've done so far on
creating a spec and compiler/interpertor can be seen here ->>

http://www.o-xml.org

early days still, but my feeling is there's huge potential in this field
for all types of XML development.

just me tuppence worth, regards,

Martin Klang
Alpha Plus Technology Ltd