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On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 19:46 +1100, david.lyon@c... wrote: > The fact is that in most medium sized enterprises, XML gets overlooked > largely for the reason that it's data type support is sub-standard for > any serious business use. Do you have any evidence to back this "fact"? Certainly it's not my experience. Enterprises didn't bounce the Web because it has "sub standard data types support". In my experience semi-structured data sets are an unqualified business support, as demonstrated by how hurriedly the RDBMS vendors rushed to build in BLOB support when the Web started to explode. > Then everything else is data elements. With its data-type encoded > in the tag. > > For example, <Information> > Company_Name&="Global Tradedesk Technology" > Registered?=True > Employees#=4 > Date_Now@=20050105 > Amount_Requested$=2000000 > </Information> > > The elements appear first, followed by the datatype, followed > by the data itself. > > The legend is: > > & = String type > ? = logical type > # = Numeric type > @ = DateTime type > $ = Currency type (or local equiv) >From an XML design POV, I do hope this is some sort of joke. If not, I'm curious: would any other static typing advocates go for this sort of thing? > But everybody is having so much fun with XML 1.0 and 1.1 that > we don't want to move on? do we? Move on to the above? You just go ahead and have fun. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use CSS to display XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss-i.html Full XML Indexes with Gnosis - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/08/py-xml.html Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286 UBL 1.0 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think28.html Use Universal Feed Parser to tame RSS - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipufp.html Default and error handling in XSLT lookup tables - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook.html A survey of XML standards - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand4/ The State of Python-XML in 2004 - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/10/13/py-xml.html
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