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On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 13:50, Jonathan Robie wrote: > To me, the most fundamental reason for datatypes is to allow them to be > part of the contract between producers and consumers of data. I wouldn't like to live in a dull world where there is to be an explicit contract between every producer and every consumer and where they don't exchange anything but data... :-) The current tag soup is much more fun. What makes XML so interesting is that XML *is* real life and it would be spoiled if it was reduced to a model! Eric -- Rendez-vous à Paris. http://www.technoforum.fr/integ2002/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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