- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 07:18:08 -0400
- To: David.Pawson@rnib.org.uk
- Cc: jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com, Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM, mc@xegesis.org, public-qt-comments@w3.org
David.Pawson@rnib.org.uk scripsit: > Clarification please John. > If I'm transforming a well formed instance, no schema, > I'm going to find the output decorated with data type information; > that wasn't there in any original DTD that may have been used > to develop these instances? This is tautologically true, since DTDs don't *have* any datatype information except the trivial attribute datatypes. > And presumably which might then fail validation on receipt > by another business if the document type is re-introduced? In principle, yes, if the DTD said that an attribute is of type ID or IDREFS or NMTOKENS or whatever and then it ended up not being the case. > Gratuitous decoration isn't my idea of fun for those who > don't want/need it. Don't use xsi:nil and xsi:type attributes gratuitously, then. -- Andrew Watt on Microsoft: John Cowan "Never in the field of human computing jcowan@reutershealth.com has so much been paid by so many http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to so few!" (pace Winston Churchill) http://www.reutershealth.com
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