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Re: NameValue and NameValueList data types

From: Rich Salz <rsalz@zolera.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:06:16 -0500
Message-ID: <3C21F058.187C3052@zolera.com>
To: Jorgen Thelin <Jorgen.Thelin@capeclear.com>
CC: xml-dist-app@w3.org, "'Jacek Kopecky'" <jacek@systinet.com>, Peter Hendry <Peter.Hendry@capeclear.com>
> The problem we (as an industry) have is that until we standardize the
> representation of a name-value list, we will never achieve any true
> interoperability of such a fundamental programming language construct as
> name-value pairs.  An "Apache standard" for this type representation is not
> going to provide this

The success of Apache as a de-facto standard argues strongly otherwise.

I don't see a compelling reason to define anything beyond the schema
base types, and constructors.
	/r$
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