Allowing unqualified references to the built-in simple types seems like a really bad idea to me. It makes it harder for the non-expert who hasn't memorised the set of built-in simple datatypes to understand schemas: when they see <element name="orderDate" type="date"/>, they cannot tell whether they should look in the schema for a definition of date or whether they should look in the Datatypes spec for a built-in definition. It perhaps makes schemas easier to write, but it makes them harder to read, and that's a poor trade-off: schemas will be read more often than they are written. JamesReceived on Saturday, 18 December 1999 00:50:01 GMT
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