Re: [xml-dev] OT: Save me from typing (was: XML as "passive data")

Dare Obasanjo scripsit:

> If you have public accessors to a private variable then besides following dogmatic mandates to "always use accessor methods" what exactly is the point? 

Not a dogmatic mandate, but an application framework convention.

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