Re: A question about datatypes from David Tombs on 2003-01-17 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from January 2003)

From: David Tombs <tombs@svrc.uq.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 21:39:05 +1000
To: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Message-ID: <002401c2be1f$5f67d8a0$061edbcb@uqdtombs>

Henry,

> In general, the philosophy behind XML in general, and XML Schema in
> particular, is that where you need to capture and/or control
> structure, use markup.  This is the reasoning behind the lack of
> support for micro-parsing, template-based simple types, etc.

Is that a 'no'?
And if that is the philosophy, why are list datatypes in as a simple type?

David

Received on Friday, 17 January 2003 06:53:31 UTC