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Serialisation, Abstraction and XML Applications

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Serialisation, Abstraction and XML Applications

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Date:: 7 August 2012, 00:00–00:00 Coordinated Universal Time
Location:: Montréal, Canada
Speakers:: Steven Pemberton
Website:: Balisage: The Markup Conference

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In principle the advantages of abstraction in programming are well understood. Yet daily interactions with everyday objects can lead us to confuse the concrete with the abstract, and think that the thing we are dealing with *is* the abstraction.