Re: I18n comment: Notion of type

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Felix Sasaki wrote:
>   
>> We are not satisfied with your reply. All what we require is a 
>> non-normative statement which says "this is not the type as in XML 
>> Schema".
>>     
>
> XML Schema doesn't have "type"s, it has "data type"s. Selectors has 
> "element type"s. We don't really understand why we should mention XML 
> Schema.
>
>   
Since you talk about "type" selectors in your document, and only 
sometimes about "element types". People new to w3c technologies 
hopefully have no bias and just want to be guided what the term "type" 
means. I am asking you for that guidance.

Regards, Felix.

Received on Monday, 13 March 2006 02:51:42 UTC