- From: Jonathan Robie <Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 22:40:10 -0500
- To: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer), www-ql@w3.org
In the grand scheme of things, we need to be able to name all XML Schema types, including not only primitive data types, but also document node types (element, attribute, node), local element names, complex types, etc. We also need to be able to specify whether type references should include derived types. We aren't there yet. That's what issue 5 is about. We are working together with the Schema Working Group to find a way to unambiguously refer to any of the things that I mentioned in the first paragraph. Jonathan At 08:57 PM 2/16/2001 -0500, Michael Kifer wrote: >I have a question about types in the just published XQuery spec. > >A type can be an XML Schema type or ELEMENT. The latter is a >keyword rather than a data type and seems disconnected from the schema >types. Also, compared to the ealier draft, the type specification keyword >ATTRIBUTE is missing. It is unclear how any of these relate to the XML >schema types. > >For instance, can I relate ELEMENT to a data type in XML schema using >instanceof? Can one specify that a function can take any node in the >document tree as an argument? > >Is this disconnect a stop-gap measure until things get ironed out with the >XML schema people or there is some grand design behind it, which I am >missing in the spec? > > > > --michael
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