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At 12:31 PM 4/18/01 -0700, Michael Brennan wrote: >For this sort of simple example, this seems reasonable to me. However, I >hope there is not going to be too much of a trend toward doing this sort of >thing. In my mind, if a datatype has some structure to it, why not just make >it a complex type and leverage XML syntax to convey that structure? Isn't >that really the whole point of XML -- a standardized syntax for conveying >structure? I'm afraid the trend's already happened: http://www.w3.org/TR/css-style-attr http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#duration http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#time http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#date http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#gYearMonth http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#gYear http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#gMonthDay http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#QName Given that situation, I'd like very much to have a means of breaking into different lexical forms representing such compounds without having to revert to full-scale XML Schema processing. It's not so much that I want to encourage such things, but that they already exist and that I'm not especially impressed with current models for processing and handling them. Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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