RE: Clarification re: token data type and token values

> I'm trying to better understand:
> 
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/#token
> 
> It seems to me that the use of the singular "token" is 
> misleading and contradictory in the first sentence "token 
> represents tokenized strings".
> 

Yes, the name xs:token was singularly inappropriate for this type (pun
intended).

The committee that produced XSD 1.0 was very large, and I have a theory that
large committees tend to produce really bad naming decisions. My theory is
that it happens because (a) all decisions in such a committee are
time-consuming, and (b) naming decisions get categorized as unimportant.

Regards,

Michael Kay
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