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At 11:09 AM 4/18/01 +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >Strong disagreement (speaking personally). We have a way in XML to >express compound objects -- it's called elements-and-attributes. The >mistake, in my opinion, was giving in to the SQL people and having >_any_ kind of date or time as simple types -- they should _all_ have >gone in to the type library as complex types. Philosophically, I can't disagree with your overall opinion. Elements-and-attributes are deeply useful markers of information atoms. Unfortunately, we're stuck with a lot of not-so-simple simple types, and there's no obvious (or necessarily good) way to make the SQL people and their friends leave the party. As a result, I'm trying to take my document-centric ways (and my distant memories of regular expressions) and find a cleaner way of dealing with some of these complexified types. 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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