RE: [xml-dev] Instances changing their type [was:Discover data patterns or Create data patterns?]

"identity should be orthogonal to type"

Yes.

len


From: Michael Kay [mailto:] 

I believe the motto used by Bill Kent (one of the IRIS designers) was
"identity should be orthogonal to type". It's one of those brilliant ideas
that for some reason never became mainstream and will probably be relaunched
by Microsoft as a sensational innovation in about 20 years' time.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/