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Henry S. Thompson wrote: >Strong disagreement (speaking personally). We have a way in XML to >express compound objects -- it's called elements-and-attributes. The >mistake, in my opinion, was giving in to the SQL people and having >_any_ kind of date or time as simple types -- they should _all_ have >gone in to the type library as complex types. > Generally I agree with this sentiment that markup is the best way to represent structured data. The problem exists with getting stuff into the proper form -- especially when the data you are handed isn't organized in an ideal fashion. I like to use a processing chain in such cases, and to the extent that regular expression matching/parsing can be integrated into an XML processing chain, we might use standard XML techniques such as XSLT transforms to "clean up" such data into a properly structured form. I'm not sure I need this facility in XML Schema per se, what I would really like is an XSLT/XPath regular expression function to include variable bindings. Recursive parsing or character data in XSLT is a fairly ugly proposition at the moment, but something that is frequently needed in practical applications. -Jonathan
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