- From: Daniel Peintner <daniel.peintner@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:08:39 +0100
- To: "SHIMIZU Wataru" <shimizu.wataru@canon.co.jp>
- Cc: public-exi-comments@w3.org, "Efficient XML Interchange WG" <member-exi-wg@w3.org>
Dear Wataru, Thank you for your feedback. > EXI documents do not include data type identifier of each value. Thus > all data types other than string can be used only in schema-informed > documents. Is it impossible to encode attribute values as integer > without schema? Fast Infoset document has data type identifier of each > values and I think it's a good approach. EXI allows one to provide the same typing information as XML. In XML documents you can provide hints about the type by using the attribute xsi:type. EXI makes use of this information in the same fashion. EXI being type-aware with attributes and any other type other than the built-in types provided by XML Schema requires external information such as an XML schema document. For a more detailed explanation please take a look at our response to a related question (see [1]). Hope this answers your question and explains our rationale Regards, -- Daniel [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-exi-comments/2009Jan/0000.html
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