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How can objects subsume XML?

OOPSLA 99: XML and Objects Panel Presentation

Mark L. Fussell
ChiMu Corporation
Mark.Fussell@ChiMu.com
www.chimu.com

Overview

XML is good for many things, but it is also used in unsuitable areas. Object-Oriented approaches are better at many of the uses XML is put toward, and with some augmentation, OO would be better at (subsume) even more application needs. The result of a complete integration of XML and OO would be of significant benefit to both the XML and OO development communities

If OO techniques could subsume most of XML:

  • XML would have a more natural, expressive, and powerful conceptual base from which to work
  • OO methods and tools would be improved to directly incorporate the interesting applications and concepts that XML supports
  • There would be a larger shared set of higher quality, more capable, and fully compatible tools and techniques

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