Re: [xml-dev] Mixed content in data-binding (Was: Re: [xml-dev] Interesting pair of comments

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 :-(


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Use CSS to display XML, part 2 - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss2-i.html
XML Output with 4Suite & Amara - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/04/20/py-xml.html
Use XSLT to prepare XML for import into OpenOffice Calc - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-oocalc/
Schema standardization for top-down semantic transparency - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think31.html