- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:05:22 -0500
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
James Clark writes: >> It would be nice to have built-in datatypes >> base64Binary and hexBinary derived from binary by >> fixing the encoding facet. It seems unnecessarily >> user-hostile to require users to derive a datatype >> themselves in order to use binary. >> >> James >> What's more, it would significantly benefit interoperability. If everyone redefines these types under different names, it's very hard to build tools, database mappings, etc. that deal with all such data in a common manner. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 Lotus Development Corp. Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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