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:]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:14 AM
> To: Murata Makoto
> Cc:
> 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
>
>
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