Modeling Business Objects with XML Schema

10

Reality Check

The World Is Object-Oriented

10.1 Object-Oriented Implementations of the XML Data Model

10.2 Encapsulation and Behavior

10.3 Class, Instance, Type

10.4 Simple Types

10.5 Complex Types

10.6 Global Types

10.7 Inheritance

10.8 Polymorphism

10.9 Dynamic Marshaling

10.10 Constraints

10.11 Identity

10.12 Visibility

Except in environments dominated by the documentation aspect, XML and XML schemata do not exist in isolation but have to integrate with other core technologies of enterprise IT, such as relational databases and object-oriented programming. This is probably the most important difference between SGML and XML. SGML flourished in documentation scenarios. XML, in contrast, intrudes into many traditional areas of enterprise ...