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[Tali Streit]

an updated version is now:
http://dotgnu.org/graphics/TaliStreit2.png

this one talks about languages, and the WOS.

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I was thinking about the DEE this morning on the train. Microsoft defines 
the System.Object class to have a method "ToString", and "MemberwiseClone". 
I was thinking we should add "ToXML" and "FromXML".

ToXML by default returns an XML string that encases the member values: for 
int, this would be "<int>32</int>". for user defined class, 
"<MyClass><int>32</int><string>Hello World</string></MyClass>".

FromXML would do the opposite: it would reconstruct the object, given an 
XML string. By doing this it would be trivial to transport the object to 
another system, let alone implement local object persistence.

the above examples exclude the namespaces for clarity.