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Re: bohemians, gentry

• To: jonathan.robie@d...
• Subject: Re: bohemians, gentry
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:05:25 GMT
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20021204190305.02c1a488@n...>(message from Jonathan Robie on Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:25:30 -0500)
• References: <5.1.0.14.0.20021204190305.02c1a488@n...>

> How does providing a datatype do that, if you still have access to the 
> lexical representation?

_if_ you still have access.

 but XQuery/Xpath allows much more of the lexical representation to
be lost, which allows incompatibilities between systems and loss of
information.


>  And if you don't explicitly import schemas into your queries, then the 
>  other conformance levels operate the same way as the Basic conformance 
>  level. The user can choose whether to import schemas into queries or do 
>  static type checks before doing a query.

But the damage may already have been done by building a "typed view" of
the document when building the data model. Choosing not to import
schemas into your query doesn't resurrect your input document.

David

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