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• Subject: Re: New tool for handling XML in Java
• From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:25:28 +0000

[Samir Kothari]:
 > For the first time, developers can gain a familiar and convenient Java
 > object-based view of their XML data without losing access to the richness of
 > the original, native XML structure.

This makes perfect sense in an object world view but is a source of dispair 
for those
of us who see XML as a markup language not an object serialisation notation.

I'm pretty confidence that those of us who see XML as markup - as 
*documents* - are
in a minority. Such is life. But we were the minority who worked on 
creating the
freaking think in the first place.

Sigh. XML is ceasing to be a technology with which I feel familiar or drawn to.

All changed, changed utterly,
A terrible beauty is born.

Sean


http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com

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