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On 10/01/2011 16:48, Costello, Roger L. wrote: > Hi Folks, > > What things have humans universally agreed to? Nothing. Not even "cogito ergo sum". > I suspect that there is nothing that humans have universally agreed to. However, these math symbols: > > 1, 2, 3, ..., 9, +, -, /, x > > are pretty darn close to being universally accepted. None of my favourite programming languages allows x for multiplication, and some of them don't allow / for division. > > We are 10 years into the XML experiment. In that time span what has become universally accepted? > > Here are my thoughts on this: > > (a) The XML Schema 1.0 datatypes--string, integer, date, time, boolean, etc--are used in many XML technologies. For example, they are used in XML Schema, XSLT, Schematron, and XQuery. I don't see any XML technologies abandoning those data types in favor of some other set of data types. > > I think that the XML Schema 1.0 data types are universally accepted by the XML community. There's a large part of the community that doesn't use data types at all, and doesn't want to. Michael Kay Saxonica
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