datatypes: conversation with Mark Butler, chair of cc/pp

• From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
• Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:48:57 +0100
• To: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
• Cc: mark_butler@otter.hpl.hp.com
• Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020814183939.0226f0a8@0-mail-1.hpl.hp.com>

I chatted with Mark Butler yesterday, including some discussion of 
datatypes in cc/pp.

One of the ideas that Mark favours is to define an XML Schema for the cc/pp 
language.  This would enable:

   o validation of incoming cc/pp profiles to a server
   o the use of default attributes to insert datatype attributes such as 
xsi:type="xsd:decimal" automatically, thus providing global implicit 
datatyping in the parser.

Whilst not perfect, does this technique go some way towards meeting the 
need for global implicit datatyping.

Brian

Received on Wednesday, 14 August 2002 13:50:36 UTC