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Re: Is XML Doomed ...? (Was: Polemicism)

• To: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>,"Xml-Dev" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Is XML Doomed ...? (Was: Polemicism)
• From: Dave Pawson <dpawson@n...>
• Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 08:34:54 +0100
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At 22:01 09/05/2003 +0200, J.Pietschmann wrote:

>Some of the complexity is hard to avoid, and in part
>due to other standards not delivering necessary specs.
>In particular the date/period types and algebra should
>already have been done somewhere else (ISO 8601 or a
>successor). Same for regexps.
>
>There's still the mess caused by the numeric types, which
>certainly *could* have been avoided.

I think the date addition is the one item I would support.
Whether it needs to be a type I doubt, though obtaining
formatting and date arithmetic are requested additions.

regards DaveP

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