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The string datatype is an anti-datatype [was: The meaning of the"string"

• From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:30:56 -0400

 Rick, this is so cool:

> XML Schemas String datatype is perhaps 
> better thought of as an anti-datatype 
> rather than a datatype. What it does is 
> signify an absence of a value-space: it 
> is not asserted to be a number, not asserted 
> to be a date, not asserted to be a boolean. 

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