• To: michael.h.kay@n...
• Subject: Re: New tool for handling XML in Java
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:42:43 -0800
• Cc: 'Samir Kothari' <skothari@b...>, xml-dev@l...
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Michael Kay wrote:

>>>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.
>>
>>What crap. -Tim
> 
> Do please expand! Are you saying that developers can't do this, or that
> they could do it before, or that the assertion is meaningless?

In the first quarter of 1997 I and then Norbert Mikula, within a few 
weeks of each other, released Java XML parsers, both of which provided 
classes with names like Element, Attribute, Document, Text, and Entity, 
offering object-oriented access to 100% of the information content in XML.

It's a pity, BEA is usually a pretty smart company in my opinion, but 
that posting was egregiously stupid.  And who knows, quite likely this 
XML Beans stuff is actually interesting and useful.  -Tim

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