• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: Re: XML-aware programming language?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:58:32 -0500
• Cc: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>, Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>,Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>, xml-dev@l...
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Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> It seems you are punting and saying "this is baggage we inherited from
> other specs so it isn't our fault". This may be true but it doesn't
> change the fact that it makes for a less than perfect data model for
> working with XML. 

I am, in fact, saying that any data model that claims to support 
namespaces and XML Schema must carry this baggage. We could simplify the 
XQuery/XPath/XSLT data model if XML did not come with these features.

In general, I think that our data model does a good job of simplifying 
what we inherit from XML Schema. Namespaces ... are tough. I don't know 
how we could do better. Do you have any concrete suggestions here?

Jonathan

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