Re: Fallback mechanism for the datatype

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Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI <>
Date
2001-07-30T19:52:19+00:00
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Re: Fallback mechanism for the datatype
> I think this is a good thing for a RELAX NG processor to do, but I'm not
> sure the spec needs to say anything.  I don't think I want to mandate any
> particular recovery behavior.

I guess you are right.

> Treating it as a string may be fine in some
> environments, but in other environments it may be more appropriate to give
> an error.  Or it might be a nice feature if a processor supported datatype
> mapping, which allowed unknown datatypes to be mapped onto supported
> datatypes, with or without an error or warning.

Mmm, looks like another topic that should go to the implementation cook
book...


regards,
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Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI                          +1 650 786 0721
Sun Microsystems