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Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 21:29 -0700, Ronald Bourret wrote:
>
>>The obvious case is the ability to edit documents (such as XHTML
>>documents) using a schema-specific set of objects. The problem is that
>>current OO languages don't support constructs that would make this easy
>>to do. Not that I'm saying I know what those would be, either...
>
> Heterogeneous arrays. Yes that simple.
>
> The excessive limitations of C++, Java and friends really do serve to
> obscure the obvious, too often :-(
Ah, yes. I looked at the description of Amara (which uses heterogenous
arrays for mixed content) on my list of XML data binding products [1]
just before reading this mail and thought, "Oh. That's obvious."
-- Ron
[1] http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLDataBinding.htm
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