• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: XPath 1.5? (was RE: typing and markup)
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 14:53:32 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200205071733.NAA12571@m...>
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At 1:34 PM -0400 5/7/02, John Cowan wrote:


>Actually, the document contains characters, not strings.  Strings are
>an abstraction you layer on the document, just like integers, dates, and
>floats.
>

I won't argue. If you prefer, go back to what I wrote previously and 
replace all occurrences of "string" with "finite sequences of 
characters". I don't think that significantly affects my arguments.
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