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>You'd like a boolean datatype, so long as it isn't the boolean datatype >defined in XML Schema, yes? > >How exactly would you like it to differ? > > no difference at all, though I am arguing for the use cases that do not require the formalism of schema e.g. or even datatypes; I think that having a simple (is-number / is-string) type functions that purely test values irregardless of datatype would give just enough flexibility; and if these functions return boolean then we avoid the problems such as u describe with something like type-of might present. exslt:type-of($x) = 'decimal' in any event, we can include it as a MAY HAVE type option and leave it to implementators to decide to implement or not. --Jim
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