Dear Frank, I still care, and I do not consider XML Schema 1.0 'good enough' on this topic. The 1.1 option does not appear viable. I fear getting too little in 1.1, lest 1.1 drift into 2.0. That leaves two choices, 'stop the presses' or 'later - version 2.0'. I do not favor 'stop the presses' to add arrays to V1.0. Nor do I favor 'start the presses' unless/until the XML Schema WG can express and defend a clear vision that does support the development of efficient standardized arrays. It does not appear to me that the WG has reached concurrence within the WG on this mattter. I believe that efficiency dictates support for 'flat' vectors/slices and support for sparse arrays. I believe that not all array content is numeric (look at some spreadsheets), which leads me to wonder whether the current micro-parsing capability is viable. I worry that the <space> delimited 'list' capability in V1.0 may be a hindrance to development of a single standardized array specification. If we don't have arrays in V1.0, perhaps we shouldn't have lists either. I believe that standardization requires development of a standard vocabulary of XML elements/attributes and their semantic properties to define arrays/vectors, and the development of basic standardized array manipulation processes, especially those needed for import/export, and for basic syntactic validation of array constructs. Cheers, Bob MillerReceived on Monday, 9 October 2000 12:55:27 GMT
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