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• Subject: Re: Inline data typing
• From: richard@i... (Richard Tobin)
• Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:40:21 +0000 (GMT)
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• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>> Looks like you'd have just reinvented xsi:type.

>Right, but for instances rather than schemas.  Or are the specs
>blessing its use in document instances now?

xsi:type always was for instances!  It is usually used when the schema
has a wildcard or to specify a subtype of the type given in the schema.
Naturally you should only use it with types specified as QNames.

(The "i" in "xsi" stands for instance.)

-- Richard

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