Terminology: "Foo has the string data type" or "Foo is the string data type" or "Foo has a data type that is a string" or something else?

• From: Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:29:55 +0000
• To: "xmlschema-dev@w3.org" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <B5FEE00B53CF054AA8439027E8FE17751828C7BE@IMCMBX04.MITRE.ORG>

Hi Folks,

Consider this element declaration:

      <element name="Foo" type="string" />

What is the proper way of expressing the relationship between Foo and the string data type?

    (a) Foo has the string data type.

    (b) Foo has a string data type.

    (c) Foo is of the string data type.

    (d) Foo is a string data type.

    (e) Foo has a data type that is a string.
 
    (f) Foo is a string.

    (g) Something else.

/Roger 

Received on Wednesday, 4 April 2012 17:30:28 UTC