Re: [xml-dev] SAX for Binary Encodings (SAD-SAX)

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John Cowan <>
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Alaric B Snell <>
Date
2003-11-09T06:51:07Z
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Re: [xml-dev] SAX for Binary Encodings (SAD-SAX)
Alaric B Snell scripsit:

> I think that the difference in typing between XSLT/XPath 1 and 2 is more 
> about the fact that they ripped out the old XPath type system (it had 
> its integers and strings and booleans and stuff) to replace them with 
> XML Schema-compatible ones, than just *adding* typing.

In XPath 1, those types apply only to expressions.  The types of the
XML being worked on are only node and string.

In XPath 2, however, the XML pieces get types as well; besides node
and string, there is also most of the WSX2 gamut.

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