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• Subject: Re: bohemians, gentry
• From: "W. E. Perry" <wperry@f...>
• Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:10:50 -0500
• Organization: Fiduciary Automation
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Jonathan Robie wrote:

> I agree that processing may impose semantics on data that was not envisioned by
> the creator of the data, but you seem to
> be saying more - that providing data types in XML data interferes with unforeseen
> reuse.

Well of course it interferes--specifically, it tightly constrains reuse--unless
that reuse is itself predicated on throwing aside the datatypes provided, and isn't
that petitio principii?

Respectfully,

Walter Perry

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