- From: Noah Mendelsohn <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:12:09 -0500
- To: "Jacek Kopecky <jacek" <jacek@systinet.com>
- Cc: "xml-dist-app" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Jacek Kopecky writes (in relation to hrefs to .GIFs): >> Noah, from the point of view of >> the XML Schema type system, the >> type would be something binary >> - with the value space of any >> sequence of octets and the lexical >> space not important since it's >> not exactly in an XML message. Well, my point is that it certainly won't have any schema type unless we write something in our specification to make it so. Furthermore, I'm quite nervous about this direction. A .gif file is surely not conformant with the lexical representation of a schema binary; even if we wished to associate the two, we would have to write a spec saying how. If I point to an ASCII text file, does that turn into binary? string? string with character repertoire restricted by regex to ascii only? binary for the encoded characters? This all feels like a very slippery slope to me, hence my suggestion that we allow such nodes to be untyped (they are obviously NOT of the schema anytype, since they need not conform to any of the limitations for XML character sets or other restrictions that characterize XML simple and complex types.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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