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Re: Some random noise on rational type systems for XML

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• Subject: Re: Some random noise on rational type systems for XML
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 14:54:33 +0100
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At 06:57 PM 5/6/2003 -0700, Joe English wrote:
>But the _XML_ ur-type is string.  From the application
>point of view, you might have dates, integers, IEEE double
>precision floating point numbers, et cetera, but as far
>as XML is concerned everything is a string.
>
>If we're talking about a rational type system _for XML_,
>then Amelia's first principle is eminently sensible.  In fact,
>I'd go even further and say it's the _only_ sensible foundation
>for an XML type system.

I'd second that happily.

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    • From: Amelia A.Lewis <amyzing@t...>
  • Re: Some random noise on rational type systems for XML
    • From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>

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