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 On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:02, jborden@a... wrote: > In talking about "more complex types" there are two different > issues that might get confused. > > 1) binary datatypes > 2) structures composed of elements and attributes > > I agree that all this business about different types of > binary datatypes does not have much to do with XML. That's good, though "binary datatypes" - do you mean the kinds of types defined in W3C XML Schema: Datatypes, or just things like base64, hexBinary? (I guess there's a continuum.) > But on the other hand, XML types composed of elements and > attributes are perfectly good XML, for example: Sure - I don't have any problem with what you demonstrated here. That's completely within the realm of markup->type I'm describing for XML. > I do agree that an inordinate focus on binary datatypes is > not something that XML ought concern itself with. Too late! > On the > other hand, I also think that there are excellent reasons > to work with "native XML" types i.e. element and attribute > based structures (a.k.a. "structured datatypes") Sure. That's exactly what XML (with or without a PSVI) is good at. > I also can't say that I would bet the farm on the "PSVI" > and its details ... it might be a bit more complicated than > it needs to be, on the other hand I haven't spent much > time trying to understand the nitty gritty details of how > it is supposed to work. That is to say, I think "types" in > general are useful, aside from the specific details of how > XSDL and the PSVI are specified. Let's not throw out the > baby with the bathwater. On the other hand, let's be sure > to use clean bathwater :-) I don't think we're disagreeing here. I suspect I'm mostly asking for a different flow of bathwater for the PSVI baby in order that the PSVI baby and the XML baby are happier - and maybe they can even share some toys. (Sorry to push the metaphor.) -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com 
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