• To: amyzing@t... (Amelia A Lewis)
• Subject: Re: W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile, says Don Box
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:57:53 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: aarons@d... (Aaron Skonnard), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20020610174934.GA12033@t...> from "Amelia A Lewis" at Jun 10, 2002 01:49:34 PM

Amelia A Lewis scripsit:

> In XML, typing specifies validation algorithms.

That's one thing it does, but not the only thing.  It also allows a
semantics-blind algorithm to convert XML into an internal network of objects.

> The power is in *flexibility* and *extensibility*.  If the only data types
> in XML on which everyone can agree are "string" and "token", then define
> those.  *And* define extension functions, extension hooks, to allow others
> to define, for an application space, their own data type libraries. 

Exactly the policy of RELAX NG.

-- 
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