- From: Edward L. Knoll <ed.knoll@cosd.fedex.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:35:39 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Ashok Malhotra <ashokma@microsoft.com>
- CC: John Mercado <johnkmercado@yahoo.com>, XQuery Comments <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
That's rather unfortunate. It is very limiting when constructing
reusable components to encounter systems which do not allow for the
nature/type of an element/variable/data memeber to be variant. This
invariably ends up being a short-sighted attitude.
Ed Knoll
> Thank you for your question. The WG discussed this and decided that
> it was enough to have a instance-of function and that a type accessor
> was not needed.
>
> All the best, Ashok
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Mercado [mailto:johnkmercado@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:17 AM
> To: XQuery Comments
> Subject: Why no xf:type accessor?
>
> The data model draft describes a number of accessors,
> most of which appear in F&O. But I don't see a type
> accessor. I see I can get the typed value, and I
> guess I could use instanceof to test to see if it's a
> specific type, but what if I want the type name as a
> QName? It seems like that would be a useful function.
> Any reason it was omitted?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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