• To: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...>,"Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Subject: Re: Announce: XML Schema,
• From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@a...>
• Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:13:25 -0400
• Cc: "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• References: <200206270046.UAA06107@m...>

John Cowan wrote:


> Thomas B. Passin scripsit:
>
> > Oh, no problem,  "facade" is an allowable form according to my
dictionary.
>
> Sure, but that doesn't make façade *wrong*.  Are you going to say that
> <text>His attitude is a mere façade</text> must not validate against
> a database library with a "text-en" datatype?
>

I suppose that if I went to the trouble to specify "text-en" that I probably
wouldn't want that to validate. Come to think of it, the French would
probably pay good money to obtain a reliable validator that fails on words
that smack of English, so that pattern * - text-en (or something akin) might
become quite popular  :-))

Jonathan

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