Re: XMLSchema-datatypes synonyms not as useful as intended

Henry Thompson writes:

> it's Broken As Designed, 

+1.  I agree.

> with hindsight.

I think some of us had suspicions from day 1.  As we're quite quick to 
note with respect to URIs, giving the same thing two names tends to have 
bad architectural consequences.  That's what we did with datatypes when we 
put them in two namespaces in parallel.  Let's deprecate.

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ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
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        Subject:        Re: XMLSchema-datatypes synonyms not as useful as intended



Personal opinion -- we should deprecate the XMLSchema-datatype
namespace -- it's Broken As Designed, with hindsight.

ht
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