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Subject: RE: [relax-ng] Simple type assignment
Seems important enough to address soon, especially if it will increase the chances of adoption by XML vendors. A type annotation in the form of an attribute seems simple enough. The sticky part must be telling developers how to implement it and what behavio{u}rs to expect out of such implementations. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: James Clark [mailto:jjc@jclark.com] > Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:14 AM > To: Murata Makoto > Cc: relax-ng@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: Re: [relax-ng] Simple type assignment > > > > > Here is different feedback. I recently spoke with some > > important person in another major XML vendor. I was quite > > strongly encouraged to provide type-assignement for all > > elements and attributes so that XQuery can rely on such > > type-assignment. > > I think this is important too. My point is that there are > multiple kinds of > type assignment each of which is important for different classes of > application. Fortunately, the way we are layering type > assignment on top of > RELAX NG means we are not forced to adopt a single kind of type > assignment. > Of course, we don't want to have too many different kinds of type > assignment. > > Incidentally, I believe XQuery needs type-assignment for text > nodes as well. > > What I'm not sure about with XQuery is the extent to which it > needs to know > about the type hierarchy. > > James > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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