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At 10:53 AM 7/6/2002 -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote: >From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] >Sent: Sat 7/6/2002 10:27 AM >To: xml-dev@l... >Cc: >Subject: Re: RE: XQuery and DTD/Schema? > >At 01:03 PM 7/6/2002 -0400, Jonathan Robie wrote: > >I don't find support for those datatypes compelling for XML. I find them > >to be a distraction from the text-based functionality that makes XML so > >useful at best, a distressing calamity at worst. I'm starting to argue > >that compromise even with the primitive types is a dangerous mistake. The formatting above is misleading - I did not write that, Simon did. I've been arguing in favor of data types. >So obviously using data typing in XML is outside your use cases so why are >you still arguing the point? Why not simply agree to disagree. >You don't care about data typing and XML while others do and those are who >XQuery is targetted at. I agree with this. >I recently asked whether any of the current users XPath have any interest >in XPath 2.0 and from the silence it seems none do which is echoed by the >lack of participation on its comments list. So I take that to mean that >most people are satisfied with the untyped querying facilities of XPath >while XQuery et al will fix the lack of a standardized typed querying >mechanism for those of us interested in such things. I also agree that most XPath users don't need much of what is in XQuery. I hope we can move significantly in the direction of simplifying XPath 2.0. Jonathan
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