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<DIV><FONT size=2>I recently came across this question in the xml-interest
group:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>> How do you represent inheritance in xml (or is<BR>> it
even possible)?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Then, I saw a posting in the jdom group, saying the
following:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>> Wednesday morning at XML DevCon in San Jose we're holding
a BOF where<BR>> we'll introduce JATO, an innovative data binding API built
on JDOM. <BR>> JATO allows you to map XML data into Java objects, and vice
<BR>> versa, using<BR>> an XML data file to dictate the
mapping.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>So, my question is: will inheritance rules be consistent
across the Java-XML and XML-Java mappings? That is, if I map a class
and subclass into xml, and back to Java, will they still be class and
subclass?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>My guess is that the XML data file will determine the rules,
thereby making such a mapping possible, but that is just a guess.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>By the way, is there somewhere I can read more about
JATO?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2> - eric</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>