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At 10:23 AM 5/7/2002 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 10:00, Matthew Gertner wrote: > > Total passionate disagreement. > >Cool. > > > I can hardly think of any cases where > > processing an XML document *doesn't* require some kind of datatype > > information. > >That's the problem. I'm talking about representing information, which >is all that XML itself does. As text, at that, quite explicitly. >You're already on to processing. Processing is a great topic, but very >different from representation. Here's where I'm baffled. I always thought queries processed information, and were supposed to. That's why they need a type system. Jonathan
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