• From: "Bill la Forge" <b.laforge@j...>
• To: "Wang,David" <dwang@m...>, <haustein@k...>, "XML-Dev Mailing list" <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:40:01 -0500

This sounds somewhat analagous to C++ templates. And aren't templates being
used (pizza?) with Java as well?

> I am no authority on this, but this is my understanding:
> OOP classes binds "elements and types" together as one (implicitly), whereas
> in XML Schema they are actually separated, so all elements have to have a
> type or datatype.  Thus, you'd have to build up a type-hierarchy alongside
> an element one, depending on how you want to use it.



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