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Re: SAX for Binary Encodings (SAD-SAX)

• To: Alaric B Snell <alaric@a...>
• Subject: Re: SAX for Binary Encodings (SAD-SAX)
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 01:51:07 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Alaric B Snell scripsit:

> I think that the difference in typing between XSLT/XPath 1 and 2 is more 
> about the fact that they ripped out the old XPath type system (it had 
> its integers and strings and booleans and stuff) to replace them with 
> XML Schema-compatible ones, than just *adding* typing.

In XPath 1, those types apply only to expressions.  The types of the
XML being worked on are only node and string.

In XPath 2, however, the XML pieces get types as well; besides node
and string, there is also most of the WSX2 gamut.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        jcowan@r...
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There are
no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that
they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit

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  • Re: SAX for Binary Encodings (SAD-SAX)
    • From: Alaric B Snell <alaric@a...>

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