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Subject: Encouragement to commit to partnering with XML Schema datatypes
Hi, Congratulations and thanks for all your efforts to date on RELAX and TREX, and for your commitment to further develop RELAX NG <URL:http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/index.shtml>, as a specification for a simpler and more regular alternative to XML Schema. This message is to strongly encourage you to commit at an early stage to partnering with XML Schema datatypes. There are considerable, perhaps obvious advantages in maintaining datatype interoperability between these two schema languages. Also, there's little point in 'reinventing the wheel' in this area. By doing so, you will also help ensure that such standards as ISO 8601 -- the International standard for date and time representations, which has the virtues of being unambiguous and easily parsed, and which is already fully reflected in XML Schema's date and time datatypes -- will also (by extension) become an integral part of RELAX NG. Many thanks, Aron Roberts Workstation Software Support Group . 221 Evans Hall University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3808 USA aron@socrates.berkeley.edu . +1 510-642-5974 . fax 510-643-5385
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