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From: "Denny Vrandecic" <nodix@tiscali.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: XML DOM Binding for Ada 95 - matter of style
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:20:49 +0200
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Denny Vrandecic wrote:
> > On the one hand, the W3C published IDLs in their standards, and I may
>> choose
>>[snip]
Martin Dowie answered
> How about providing both? One as a wrapper to the other.

Simply put: double work, same pay.
There is no easy way of wrapping one around the other, especially Exception
Handling is a rather tricky issue that differs tremendously between the IDL-
and the Ada-way.
To avoid double work and still write the one binding that is most useful for
the Ada-Community I ask here for your opinion and advice.

Thanks though,
Denny