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> Amelia A Lewis wrote: > > > In XML, typing specifies validation algorithms. > > Tim Bray: > > Hmm... well it also allows software to unpack XML instances into native > storage in a sensible way without being savvy to the internals of the > applications that generated or will use the data. > > My question is, is there a need for this? -Tim It also facilitates the reverse scenario: exposing strongly-typed data (database, object graph, whatever...) as an Infoset, which can be processed using any of XML's layered services (XPath, XSLT, XML Query, etc.) in a natural way. The demand for such functionality seems to be growing as businesses see it simplifying the server integration story. -aaron
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