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RE: Some random noise on rational type systems for XML

• To: "'Cavnar-Johnson, John'" <JCavnar-Johnson@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Some random noise on rational type systems for XML
• From: Jeff Lowery <Jeff.Lowery@c...>
• Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 09:53:46 -0700

> Whether or not you think this is a good design, it's clearly 
> an example of
> an XML application taking advantage of those distinctions for element
> content defined to represent a number.

Interesting.  Of course, in another context, those three syntactic devices
might be interpreted differently.  

The example you gave seems like an evil method for data hiding, rather than
a meaningful interpretation of syntax.  Would it have been any harder just
to enumerate the three cases you mentioned and give them meaningful string
representations in XML?  I think not.  

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