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Re: bohemians, gentry

• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>, David Carlisle <davidc@n...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: bohemians, gentry
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:19:01 -0700
• In-reply-to: Message from Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...> of "Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:33:15 MST." <E18LUaZ-0004QM-00@b...>
• Sender: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>

> Jonathan Robie:
> 
> > A processor is only allowed to canonicalize typed data, and is certainly 
> > never required to. In the absence of a datatype, the application could not 
> > safely canonicalize, but the datatype says clearly how the data is to be 
> > interpreted.
> > 
> > And one reason this can be helpful is the kind of interoperability problems 
> > illustrated by your example: How many numbers does the following element 
> > contain?
> > 
> >          <Weight>0<!--I added this leading 0 for a reason-->123.4560</Weight>
> > 
> > Of course, you could simply say that depends on the application, and the 
> > markup should not mandate whether one weight or two is intended...but 
> > doesn't that tightly couple your data to the applications used to process it?
> 
> Huh?  This is such a twisted leap of logic that I really don't know where to 
> start in comprehending it.  How does the fact that the XML does not directly 
> provide answers to how an application interprets the data sufddenly tightly 
> couple the data to the XML. 

I mean "suddenly tightly couple the data to the application", of course.


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