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Re: bohemians, gentry

• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: Re: bohemians, gentry
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 00:05:58 -0700
• Cc: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...> of "Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:02:56 EST." <5.1.0.14.0.20021204184957.01638bc0@n...>
• Sender: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>

> At 11:35 PM 12/4/2002 +0000, Sean McGrath wrote:

> >Q. Is it a good idea to bind the concept of "floating point number" 
> >tightly into the processing
> >of this XML document? Would this not be wonderfully convenient?
> >
> >A. No, because interpreting it as a floating point number is an 
> >*interpretation* of the text, not
> >a fundamental part of the text. My process will do that interpretation, 
> >thank you very
> >much.
> 
> And nobody is constraining your process from doing that. On the other hand, 
> some people seem to be arguing that also supporting datatypes causes 
> problems.

Sorry, who are these people?  Can you point out anyone here who says that 
providing modular and optional support for data types automatically causes 
problems?


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