FpML-AWG-Legacy Fwd: [fpml-arch-modelling-wg] Re: Class name tags

["Danielle Cauthen" <dcauthen@xxxxxxxx>]

--- In fpml-arch-modelling-wg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Robert Silver"
<robert.e.silver@...> wrote:

Marcus -

I was not arguing that Date should be a class.  I was arguing that FpML
does not define what is and is not a class.  IF classes are to be
instantiated, THEN
FpML must also define a standard as to what is a class.

- Robert

marcus_rainbo-@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/fpml-arch-modelling-wg/?s
tart=16
> 
> 
> What we should be designing is an XML standard.  Good XML should
relect the
> complexity of the document it encodes -- as simple as possible and no
simpler.
> 
> It is also possible to model a document in UML.  As an OO-believer, I
believe
> that a good UML model is isomorphic with a good XML model.  However,
this is a
> mapping problem, not a problem for FpML.  AIl we should be concerned
with is to
> generate good XML.
> 
> My feeling is that an argument about whether a date is or is not a
class is not
> the right sort of argument.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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