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A little while ago, Rick Jelliffe issued the challenge: > Personally, I think it is high time for people who don't like the > W3C datatypes to band together to make a concrete alternative. I thought I'd spend a little time on this, so I've put together a "datatype library language". The idea is that applications such as RELAX NG validators or XPath 2.0 processors could read in a document in this language and use it to construct a datatype library or set of in-scope type definitions. Note that this isn't a proposed datatype library -- it's not a replacement for the XML Schema datatypes -- rather, it's a language that enables users to create declarative definitions of the datatype libraries that they need. A description of the language itself and a proof-of-concept implementation are available from: http://www.jenitennison.com/datatypes I think it's at a stage where it's complete enough to be worth discussing but not so complete that it's not worth discussing. In other words, I invite comments! Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/
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