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Re: most contested area of xml schema interoperability?

• To: Berend de Boer <berend@x...>
• Subject: Re: most contested area of xml schema interoperability?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:42:31 -0400
• Cc: "bryan" <bry@i...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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At 07:27 AM 6/10/2003 +1200, Berend de Boer wrote:

> >>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Robie 
> <jonathan.robie@d...> writes:
>
>     Jonathan> 3. The type hierarchies are not simple - the
>     Jonathan> distinct hierarchies for complex and simple types and
>     Jonathan> the distinction between elements and complex types
>     Jonathan> result in a more cluttered type system than that found
>     Jonathan> in most OO or relational systems. This is not the kind
>     Jonathan> of type lattice that a good datahead would normally
>     Jonathan> design.
>
>But it is the type part that is adopted by most other XML based
>languages like Relax NG and XForms. Can't be too bad :-)

Well, only the simple types are being incorporated into the other schema 
languages - and I believe that the extensible type system of the simple 
types is a very good thing. I'm not wild about all the Australian types 
(gDay and the other date/time types), and I wish integer were a primitive 
type rather than something derived from decimal by restriction, but the 
framework for constructing simple types is very elegant, I think.

The type system as a whole, when you add in the complex types and 
substitution groups and all ... well, I agree, it's not too bad, it's 
workable but overly complex.

Jonathan 

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