> -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 1:53 PM > To: general@xml.apache.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; xerces-j-dev@xml.apache.org > Subject: Re: Question about document type nodes and JAXP > > > If I had the ear of some committee members, I'd try to > convince them to stop using IDL to specify DOM and use > UML instead. (The lack of a standard mapping from UML > to various implementation languages would then be the > next problem, though. Hmm.)
I'm not convinced that a language neutral spec is that important. What does it give us? I'd rather use an API tailored to the language I'm in, I think.
