Comments Appreciated on Magazine Based on XML/XSL

[Jonathan Borden]

Paul Prescod wrote:
>
>
> My impression of Excelon is that it does not "hide behind a DOM interface"
> in the sense that I cannot pump in arbitrary objects conforming to
> arbitrary IDL or DDL schemas and expect them to present a "DOM interface"
> to the world. Excelon implements a DOM interface to XML documents, not to
> arbitrary data objects. That doesn't make it a bad product, but I don't
> think it is the product Mark is describing. I imagine that the (imaginary)
> product that Mark is describing would allow you to specify your objects in
> IDL, manipulate them as ordinary object/method/property Java or C++
> objects and get a DOM interface to them "for free" when you want it. I
> don't think that that product exists.
>

	Actually, if you take my XMOP project which serializes COM/IDL described
and Java objects into a DOM interface, and bolt it onto eXcelon, this is
pretty much exactly what this would do. XMOP uses either Java reflection or
COM typelibraries (which are compiled IDL and are close but not quite full
fidelity to MIDL itself), and serializes the object into either a DOM or an
XML stream.

Jonathan Borden
http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net




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