Re: XML [~serialization] and Objects
Bill la Forge (b.laforge@jxml.com)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:22:43 -0400
>In the general case I'd go so far as to say that _some_ elements
>represent a "thing", and many don't. Existing DTDs aren't all done
>with a particular object modeling paradigm, and so on. One can't
>deduce which elements represent objects, which represent properties,
>which represent actions, and so forth without a data model in hand.
Yes, we need a data model to effectively process documents
conforming to a particular DTD.