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> So let's see if I understand this: > > Are XML datatypes core technology? No. > > Are XML datatypes useful under certain contexts? Certainly. > > Can the support and transport of datatype information impose a burden in > contexts where datatypes are not useful? Of course. > > Therefore: > Datatype support should be modular. > > Datatypes should not creep into core Recs. > > In contexts where datatypes are not useful, there should be a mechanism to > toss away or filter out datatype noise. (I suppose the same could be said > for namespaces, as well, or any other meta-meta-tag info.) > > So why is this class warfare and not merely an argument for good software > design? > > Politics? Mmmm... could be. It's called "trope". Sheesh! I hate it when the gallery decides they're going to stop coming to plays with a full belly of ale. I like to think Shakespeare would have chased off such teetotallers from the theater with the live bears from the baiting ring. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Tour of 4Suite - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/16/py-xml.html Proper XML Output in Python - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/13/py-xml.html RSS for Python - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-p yth11.html Debug XSLT on the fly - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-deb ugxs.html
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