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Re: What are the characteristics of a good type system for XML

• To: "John Cowan" <cowan@m...>
• Subject: Re: What are the characteristics of a good type system for XML?
• From: "Bob Foster" <bob@o...>
• Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 17:44:04 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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From: "John Cowan" <cowan@m...>
> The problem of incommensurable durations (which is longer, 60 sec or 1
min?)
> is much more serious, and I don't see that anything can reliably be done
> about it.  Durations are simply not totally-ordered.

Do you have an example of two durations that can't be ordered by
normalization?

Bob

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