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Re: PSVI formalization

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• Subject: Re: PSVI formalization
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 00:02:13 -0700
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"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
> Once you have that much metadata about "quantity" you can do an awful
> lot of things you couldn't do when "quantity" was a textual type
> identifer applied to text.  You can optimize the representation of that
> integer - which is what I've proposed - and you skip an awful lot of
> intermediate processing to reach that number.
> 
> If all you really want is the number, why monkey around with text?

Portability. It's the number one reason to use XML, made relevant by
XML's ability to represent a huge variety of information.

-- Ron

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