- From: len bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 10:32:28 -0500
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Tim Bray wrote: > > Steve's analysis is sensible and I agree with most of it. > > It is totally undeniable that a general typing mechanism, whether > based on regex or hylex or whatever, gives a degree of flexibility > and fine control that is unbeatable. [snip] > One point - count me as one vote *against* wiring this into either > XML-lang or WG8, and *for* doing it in a separate doc, using > vanilla attribute/notation mechanisms, for now. That way everybody > gets to use it now, and people who don't care don't have to > build the machinery into the parser... let's try and defend > that grad-student-week, it's one of our proudest achievements. -Tim Usually, I'm on the "leave the application developers to their own devices" side, but I agree with Tim. At least from the database perspective I'm getting right now, a separate document that provides a set of data types based on the SQL set appears to be a very sensible and immediately useful product. ONE For. len
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