SPOUT: Object vs. XML

I was watching a group of folks present a new XML standard the other day
and I realized something for the first time: to XML folk, OO languages
are just script-like "glue" for connecting XML processing steps, the
"Unix pipe" of the new millennium, if you will. Integration with OO
languages is necessary to enable XML dominance, but that's an accident
of history. In the view of the XML zealot, OO will eventually fall away
and only pure, clean XML will be left in its place.

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Chris Sells
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/