Re: [ubl-ndrsc] XML and Polymorphism

["Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@sun.com>]

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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