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Tim Bray <tbray@t...> writes: <snip/> > HT said: > >That's simply false -- any sensible use of QNames would involve a W3C > >XML Schema or other type-assigning schema language, > > No, Henry. A substtantial proportion of application use no schemas > whatsoever past design time. Yes, IF you have a schema language > that supports QNames as a type and IF you have a such a schema for > the XML language you're using and IF you're willing to take > the overhead of schema validation at run-time, THEN there > is a way for an XML processor to tell whether QNames are > hiding in content. Otherwise not. -Tim 1) I was overly terse above, and at least one other respondent has not unreasonably misunderstood -- I should have said "any sensible use of QNames _in content_ . . ." (as opposed to for element and attribute names). 2) I guess what I'm saying is that I'm betting that applications which find QNames in content useful will also find that type-enriched infosets are useful too, and be willing to pay the price of getting them. I understand that you're betting the other way. Time will tell. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@c... URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
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