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RE: XQuery and DTD/Schema?

• To: <michael.h.kay@n...>,"'Tim Bray'" <tbray@t...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XQuery and DTD/Schema?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 13:08:58 -0400
• In-reply-to: <002401c222d7$12e02e30$6401a8c0@pcukmka>
• References: <3D2326F8.8040508@t...>

At 10:17 PM 7/3/2002 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> > - XQuery is semantically wired into the XSD basic type system, with
> >    the exception that the Duration type is underspecified so they use
> >    a custom restriction of it
>
>Well, the functions and operators are wired into it, and there are
>literals built in for four of the data types (decimal, integer, double,
>and string). The functions are just a library, not really a core part of
>the language. The operators probably could be abstracted away from the
>data types if we really wanted to do so. As it is, most of the Schema
>datatypes (e.g. the gRegorian family) have no intrinsic support in the
>language: one could define a core set of types that is substantially
>smaller than the set of Schema primitive types.

XQuery needs to know about integers, floats, strings, etc. The built-in 
types of XML Schema are used not only by XML Schema, but also by many 
RELAX-NG applications, RDF, the SQL/XML mappings being defined by the 
ANSI/ISO SQLX committee, etc. When these data types are so widely accepted, 
it just makes sense to support them.

Jonathan

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