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I would say that XML-Data is pretty good in terms of how many datatypes it has. We could clean up some duplicates like int and i4 (and maybe one or two more like that). Any more significant modification should be done within the context of ISO 11404 and HTTP-NG. A comparison to ISO 11404 (ISO/IEC 11404:1996 Information technology -- Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces -- Language-independent datatypes) would put XML-Data in context of relevant precedence. Anyone interested in LID (Language-independent datatypes) should read 11404 or the papers of Brian Meek; the latter is cheaper and his papers are on the Web. Meek's "A taxonomy of datatypes" is very relevant and helps to set the stage for these types of discussions. If the goal is to reduce the count of datatypes then consider the HTTP-NG type system. It has only two numeric primitives, fixed-point and floating-point. See the third section of http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-HTTP-NG-architecture/ for details and motivation. The document's attitude is summed up by the following quoted phrase though: "We use this approach, instead of specifying a procrustean flock of predefined integer types...". Since HTTP-NG is another activity of the W3C, synchronization of HTTP-NG and XML-Data would be good. > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Layman [mailto:andrewl@m...] > Sent: Friday, July 10, 1998 3:49 PM > To: 'John Tigue' > Cc: Bryan Gilbert; 'xml-dev@i...' > Subject: RE: Data Types (was: RE: Dates in XML) > > > Tim Bray suggests that there are too many datatypes defined. > What is your > opinion on this? > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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