Re: Function of XAM

Amit Kumar Saha wrote:
> Hello Samaresh,
>
> On 10/2/07, Samaresh <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> In XML world, there are a lot of document types. XML Schema, WSDL, XSL
>> etc. etc. They are all plain XML.
>>
>> Now when it comes to using these documents in editor, user sees and uses
>> them differently. There are various domain models that come into play,
>> e.g. for WSDL document, there is a WSDL model behind the scene.
>>
>> XAM is an abstraction which encapsulates all common behavior for these
>> models. As an example, lets say, if you want to write your own XSL
>> model, you may want to extend from XAM and get a lot for free. Schema
>> model, WSDL model, AXIOM etc are all an extension to XAM.
>>     
>
> Things have become a lot clearer now. Thanks!
>
> Consider a situation in which I am editing a simple XML file with a
> DTD, XML namespace. How is the model for this generated? I would like
> to know how does XAM handle any generic XML document loaded into the
> editor.
>   
Let me re-iterate, there is no XAM just for any XML document. XAM is an 
abstraction and domain models (like Schema, WSDL etc) bring in XAM by 
virtue of extending/implementing XAM. You may want to create your own 
XAM based model for some XML. How you want to create it is up to you.

AXIOM (xml/axi) is an good example if you want to know the technical 
details of using XAM.