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On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:26, Mike Champion wrote: > Nobody screamed when XPath added such universally understood types > as string, number, and boolean. Few would object to adding other > universally understood types such as date, and expanding "number" > into integer and floating point. People started screaming when > W3C Schema created date, time, dateTime, duration ... and > number got expanded into int, long, short, float, double > and all the rest that Amy Lewis so brilliantly skewered yesterday. I think it's also worth considering _how_ XPath adds those types. The types come from XPath processing, not something fundamental about the XML itself. Amy's "gHorribleKluge" deserves additional note as a brilliant skewering, however! -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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