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Re: [ubl-ndrsc] XML and Polymorphism

  • 1.  Re: [ubl-ndrsc] XML and Polymorphism

    Posted 03-23-2003 05:43
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    Subject: Re: [ubl-ndrsc] XML and Polymorphism


    A Gregory wrote:
    > Eve:
    > 
    > I've always heard Java interfaces discussed as not really implementing
    > "multiple inheritance". Is this the same thing as "polymorphism" in your
    > sense of it?
    
    Yes, I think so.
    
    > I agree that "polymorphism" is potentially confusing, but I always thought
    > it was somebody else's fait-accompli. What else should we call it, to be
    > clearer?
    
    Maybe just inheritance?  That's all it is, I think, with the slight 
    added twist that XML has elements and types (two kinds of constructs) 
    rather than just classes (one kind of construct).
    
    	Eve
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