Re: Java class != XML entity

len bullard (cbullard@hiwaay.net)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 22:23:20 -0500


David Megginson wrote:

> As far as I may be allowed to compare tropical and temperate tree
> fruit, the equivalent of a Java class is a complete XML document.

Class or an object of a class? Even that is not great. Colonized
namespaces can contain property values from different classes of objects
in a single document yes? To me as an SGMLer, a colonized document
*looks like* an SGML document with multiple doctype statements.

> The problem is that we don't have a good name for a collection of XML
> documents working tightly together, the way that a collection of Java
> classes can work in an applet or application -- "web" seems too loose,
> and "docuverse" seems too New-Age. Any suggestions?

I call them aggregates but I think of that from a process point of view.
When I look at a colonized file, I think of weaving together different
document types into an aggregate type, loosely a collection.

A 3D model would help.

len