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[C. M. Sperberg-McQueen] >> >> I'm astonished to see document people disowning the idea of >> datatyping, as if better datatyping (and the failure of #PCDATA >> to provide the constraints we wanted, for things like numbers >> or dates or other simple datatypes) had not been one of the >> most frequently mentioned desiderata in discussions of markup >> among professional DTD designers, in the years 1986-1998. [Joe English] >Speaking for myself only (a firmly committed "doc-head"), I'm >not at all opposed to the idea of datatyping. I am, however, >opposed to the way that it's realized in W3C XML Schema, and >the fact that this particular type system continues to infect >otherwise perfectly-good specs like XPath. +1. Sean http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com
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