RE: [DM] Typed value for elements

> [Michael Rys] This is a bad rule since it disregards the 
> document-centric use case where you want to apply string 
> functions to complex content.

Quite. We had a use case on the xsl-list last week that required
applying tokenize() to the entire document, treating it as a string and
ignoring all the markup. (Yes, I know we can always do that by applying
the fn:string() function... But asking users to change their existing
code and make it more long-winded requires a very strong justification.)

Michael Kay