On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Nicolas LEHUEN wrote:

>  Give people a schema language that enables them to define XML datatypes as
>  easily as they used to define C structs or Java or C++ classes, and a
>  language in which you can easily use XPath expression as rvalues or lvalues,
>  while being constrained by the schema, and voilà - no more binding is
>  required. The document *IS* the data.

So using XML will be starting to tie people into using XML-specific tools,
rather than using whatever data model is most familiar or appropriate to
them? XML as an environment rather than the universal glue? Muhahah!

ABS

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