At 8:45 PM +0200 5/23/03, Gustaf Liljegren wrote:
>Imagine XML like a standardized object model of various node types, with no
>rules whatsoever about the serialization format. Why would such a standard
>have less chance to survive?
Because standard object models don't cross language and platform
boundaries particularly well. DOM's living proof of that. It's bad
Java, bad C++, bad C#, bad Perl, and bad everything else. Better to
have a standard syntax and different, non-standard, independent
object models optimized for their particular domains and uses that
all operate on the same underlying syntax. Object models are *local*.
Syntax is *global*.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
