- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Jan 2003 12:02:03 +0000
- To: "David Tombs" <tombs@svrc.uq.edu.au>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"David Tombs" <tombs@svrc.uq.edu.au> writes:
> 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'?
Yes.
> And if that is the philosophy, why are list datatypes in as a simple type?
Legacy -- we had to support IDREFS, ENTITIES, NOTATIONS and provided
lists as the minimum necessary underlying generalisation.
Similarly for dates, (which I argued against and lost on).
ht
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