Hi,

because this list are many people which are close to computer science 
research ;-) , I would ask here:
would it by a design option to use XML and related standards as a 
general technology for storing data in programs ? Or let's say as a 
thesis:  XML( DOM) XQuery, XPath etc. should be used as a kind of 
"memory database" instead of the tons of special data structures a 
developer creates in his life for his data  (especially in c/c++ the 
structs, unions) ? And because of the typeless of squeak language it is 
easy to  doing so, as I've seen in my current work with yaxo and XPath.
But there is  one weakness: it seems to me that XML, XPath and 
especially XSLT are far more oriented to functional programming then 
objectorientation. Or would it be really declarative ?
So would the thesis above hold for Squeak  ? How important is XML for 
squeak (croquet) ?

Greetings

Hans