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I think there is still a lot more to do in order to break the wall between documents and objects ! I dream of a language where we could do : data.txt : person { name = "john", surname = "dow" } data = "load("data.txt"); That load creating both the squeleton of classes, and its instances. And then access/modify data as if it was a document : add(data, "//person[name = 'john'][surname = 'dow']", account = "54335"); All that expression "//person[name = 'john'][surname = 'dow']" as a string, that way that could be generically generated from a database, or a configuration file. You could say that is already what is possible in XML, but still lots of developpers will ask you to have a real object tree, like : var persons = data.person; foreach person in persons { if (http://person.name == "john" and person.surname == "dow") { person.account = "54335"; } } See all the marshaller/unmarshaller APIs you find on the web in order to do that ! I do not think I will ever understand why people are so fan of those generated POJO objects. I only saw a bit about JSON, but it seems they made some steps in that direction. Regards Nico http://debeissat.nicolas.free.fr/programming.php 2009/3/27 Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@s...>
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