- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:12:22 +0100
- To: "'G. Ken Holman'" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> I'm trying to better understand: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/#token > > It seems to me that the use of the singular "token" is > misleading and contradictory in the first sentence "token > represents tokenized strings". > Yes, the name xs:token was singularly inappropriate for this type (pun intended). The committee that produced XSD 1.0 was very large, and I have a theory that large committees tend to produce really bad naming decisions. My theory is that it happens because (a) all decisions in such a committee are time-consuming, and (b) naming decisions get categorized as unimportant. Regards, Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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