Re: Schema changes for absent, empty, and nil special values from Henry S. Thompson on 2001-04-13 (www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org from April to June 2001)

From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Apr 2001 22:57:23 +0100
To: "Tolkin, Steve" <Steve.Tolkin@FMR.COM>
Cc: "'www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org'" <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>, "'w3c-query-wg@w3c.org'" <w3c-query-wg@w3c.org>
Message-ID: <f5b7l0o5upo.fsf@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

<personalOpinion>
The only semantics which it is appropriate for the XML Schema spec. to 
discuss is validation semantics.  What semantics users and/or
applications attach to syntactic usage patterns is their business.
</personOpinion>

ht
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