- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 20:11:46 +0200
- To: "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
Tim Bray wrote: > > [Dare Obasanjo] I agree that default values and type > information are orthogonal but they both exist in the PSVI > because it is the Post Schema Validation Infoset which means it > includes everything that can be obtained from validating an XML document. > > Sigh. I'm arguing that both value defaulting and type annotation are > orthogonal to the process of validation. Yes, this happens to be > produced as a side-effect of validation - but I can imagine doing type > annotation in a much more lightweight way than bringing a large complex > declarative schema facility to bear. In fact, why shouldn't I just be > able to jam something into the instance or infoset saying "this > attribute here is an integer"? Here's an example where an "infoset" is augmented with type information in absence of DTD, XDR or XML Schema: <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-property-datatypes-latest.html>
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