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RE: Why datatypes?

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: RE: Why datatypes?
• From: Murali Mani <mani@C...>
• Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:49:38 -0700 (PDT)
• Cc: "'Gustaf Liljegren'" <gustaf.liljegren@x...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B531@HQ5>

Is this data vs information well-known?? -- XML is for exchange of data,
but XML with schema is for exchange of information.

I like that, but was wondering -- someone should have already said this..

thanks and regards - murali.

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> Because an XML Schema by definition implies
> a system based on it.  XML is just data until
> it encounters a schema.  After that, the data
> is augmented with information that the original
> XML instance did not specify to enable processing
> the instance also did not specify.  If you need an
> answer to your question, it is in the post-parse
> processing model.

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