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This all sounds sensible to me. -----Original Message----- From: rbourret@d... [mailto:rbourret@d...] Sent: Friday, July 10, 1998 8:38 AM To: xml-dev@i... Subject: Re: Dates in XML Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > ... > I was looking at the XML-Data proposal just today and thinking 'why don't > we use the primitives it defines, just as they are, without the rest of > XML-data?'. This encourages me to offer the question to a wider audience. I > am seriously missing a specification for primitives - what do other people > think about borrowing those from XML-data? Absolutely. For XSchema 1.1, I vote for a dt:dt attribute on the PCData element. The XML-Data spec shows the following ways to specify data types: Attribute: <size dt:dt="int">8</size> Subelement: <size><dt:int>8</dt:int></size> Schema: <elementType id="size"><datatype dt="int"/></elementType> I believe we should only adopt the first of these for now. While there are no technical problems with the second, it seems counter to the spirit of XML: We are now most closely labeling the value 8 as an int, rather than as a size, which is what it really is. The third is just plain confusing because the datatype subelement is not part of the content model. For example, what does the following XML-Data declaration mean? The sequence is an integer? I can imagine datatype elements as a substitute for content models, but not in addition to them. Anything I'm missing here? <elementType id="size"> <datatype dt="int"> <group groupOrder="SEQ"> <element type="#shoe"/> <element type="#shirt"/> </group> </elementType> -- Ron Bourret 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...) 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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