Re: Types for Option Values

/ Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> was heard to say:
| Alex Milowski wrote:
|> It would certainly be nice for the p:option to have some declaration
|> of the type value to assist tools in authoring option values or debugging
|> pipelines.
|>
|> A simple proposal would be to allow an optional 'type' attribute on
|> p:option element that has a QName value.   That identifies a type name
|> that may or may not be known by a pipeline processor.
|
| I'd really rather not do this (in v1 at least). Options should have
| string value and nothing else.

I'm with Jeni on this one. The best we could do, if we did allow types,
is 'number', 'string', or 'boolean'.

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                                          norm

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