Dean Hiller writes: > I found out recently that xsd(at least in my eyes) is > not object-oriented. It doesn't support information > hiding very well as in a superclass hides it's > subclass's fields and methods. Only superclass's data > is seen. Information hiding is one of the principles > of OO. Dean raised some of the same questions on schema-dev and I posted a reply there with some thoughts on the relationship between OO, XML and Schema (see [1]). Perhaps this will be of interest if the workgroup decides to consider the issue more formally. Thank you. Noah [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xmlschema-dev/2003Oct/0075.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Tuesday, 21 October 2003 13:42:05 UTC
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