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RE: Data binding as type definition


RE:  Data binding as type definition

> At 12:37 PM 6/11/2002 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> >Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
> >
> > > I guess I think of those constraints as bonus things you can do 
> > > once you have identified a type, not as something intrinsic to a 
> > > particular type.  Sort of like constraints applied through 
> > > get/set accessors in Java.
> >
> >Note my definition of type: a named class of values.  (The 
> >name can be a complex name, of course, like "non-negative 
> >integer" or "integer between -200 and 55678".)
> 
> Yep.  That's completely different from my notion of type (for 
> XML, anyway), which is a set of values with a common lexical 
> representation.  That representation can include both markup 
> and textual representation.

I agree with John that a type is a named value-space. I also agree with
Simon that for type to be useful in XML, its value-space must correspond
to a well-defined lexical-space. This is exactly what XML Schema
provides.

-aaron
http://staff.develop.com/aarons


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