- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 01:48:08 +0200
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Steven J. DeRose wrote: > a) Do nothing: have no types for #PCDATA, and only the existing attribute > declared values. > > b) Define a small, fixed number of atomic types. This is my favourite. It is in the spirit of XML (the 95% solution with 5% of the effort). C and d add a lot of complexity and I can see very little gain. As programming languages and SQL show, you don't need more than half a dozen types. Something close to this set is enough: boolean, integer, real, character, string, and date/time. XML already has ways to make arrays, records and pointers. > > c) Define a language for defining datatypes: regex (say, per POSIX), or > perhaps HyLex. > > d) Define a way to access *any* programming, scripting, or other language at > all. Bert
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