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• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 14:05:33 +0000

Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...> writes:

> "Henry S. Thompson" wrote:
> > 
> > Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...> writes:
> > 
> > <snip/>
> > 
> > > In other words, these specs should start by defining their requirements
> > > and check if W3C XML Schema can meet them rather than deciding a priori
> > > that they will use it.
> > 
> > But that's exactly what they did -- see their respective requirements
> > documents [1], [2].
> 
> I meant users requirements, defining the range of documents that need to
> be covered, not "must support" requirements as shown by the quotes below
> and are declarations to support whatever will be covered by W3C XML
> Schema !
> 
> Eric
> 
> > ht
> > 
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlquery-req
> 
> The XML Query Data Model MUST represent both XML 1.0 character data and
> the simple and complex types of the XML Schema specification.
> 
> > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xp-reqs
> 
> The XML Protocol data representation must support using XML Schema
> simple and complex types. 
> 
> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20req
> 
> XML Schema: Structures and XML Schema: Datatypes enable users to define
> and use both simple and structured types and associate them to elements
> and attributes in a schema. XSLT 2.0 MUST provide support for the common
> operations needed for matching and construction of transformed documents
> based on a source document containing these typed elements and
> attributes.

Sorry, you're right on the letter, but I was reading the Use Case
sections and remembering the discussions that _lead_ to those quotes,
in each case motivating type-dependence from the basic goals of the
exercise.

ht
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