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Re: [ANN] Candle 0.8 - a new scripting language for XML

• To: Henry Luo <henryluo@v...>
• Subject: Re: [ANN] Candle 0.8 - a new scripting language for XML
• From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:45:50 +0200
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Henry Luo wrote:
> XML is already given. And we cannot change it to make it a strong typed 
> markup language.
> However, is it better for an markup language to be strong typed if 
> invented from scratch?

No, it's not better. XML is unbiased regarding typing, you can leave it 
in a vanilla untyped state or you can use an external definition to 
enforce any typing system that you like onto it, as strict or lax as you 
want, as static or dynamic as you wish, etc. This means that your data 
is a lot more useful, since different kinds of processing applied to it 
can see it using the typing approach most suitable to them, as opposed 
to a one-size-fits-all typing approach that has historically 
consistently failed to be generally useful in describing the world.

Merging again what has been pleasantly orthogonalized is IMHO a step back.

-- 
Robin Berjon
   Senior Research Scientist
   Expway, http://expway.com/

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