Michael Kay wrote:

> >>For the first time, developers can gain a familiar and 
> >convenient Java 
> >>object-based view of their XML data without losing access to the 
> >>richness of the original, native XML structure.
> >
> >What crap. -Tim
>  
>  Do please expand! Are you saying that developers can't do this, or that
>  they could do it before, or that the assertion is meaningless?

In the first quarter of 1997 I and then Norbert Mikula, within a few 
weeks of each other, released Java XML parsers, both of which provided 
classes with names like Element, Attribute, Document, Text, and Entity, 
offering object-oriented access to 100% of the information content in XML.

It's a pity, BEA is usually a pretty smart company in my opinion, but 
that posting was egregiously stupid.  And who knows, quite likely this 
XML Beans stuff is actually interesting and useful.  -Tim


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