RE: [XQuery] MS-XQ-LC1-143 from Michael Kay on 2004-02-17 (public-qt-comments@w3.org from February 2004)

From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:25:01 -0000
To: "'Michael Rys'" <mrys@microsoft.com>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
Message-ID: <001c01c3f56a$36ab2470$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

> 
> Section 4.12 Function Declaration	
> Technical	
> 
> "An XQuery implementation may augment the type system of 
> [XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model] with additional types 
> that are designed to facilitate exchange of data with host 
> programming languages": Please make sure that this type is 
> available in the context of the general type system. In 
> particular, make sure that it is placed under either one of 
> xs:anyType, xs:anySimpleType or xdt:untypedAtomic and not 
> under concrete types.
> 
I'm happy to see some constraints on this, but I've found it most
convenient to put such types under xdt:anyAtomicType. 

Michael Kay

Received on Tuesday, 17 February 2004 10:24:19 UTC