Re: A question about datatypes

"David Tombs" <tombs@svrc.uq.edu.au> writes:

> Henry,
> 
> > In general, the philosophy behind XML in general, and XML Schema in
> > particular, is that where you need to capture and/or control
> > structure, use markup.  This is the reasoning behind the lack of
> > support for micro-parsing, template-based simple types, etc.
> 
> Is that a 'no'?

Yes.

> And if that is the philosophy, why are list datatypes in as a simple type?

Legacy -- we had to support IDREFS, ENTITIES, NOTATIONS and provided
lists as the minimum necessary underlying generalisation.

Similarly for dates, (which I argued against and lost on).

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