• To: Henry Luo <henryluo@v...>
• Subject: Re: [ANN] Candle 0.8 - a new scripting language for XML
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:16:57 -0400
• Cc: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@i...>, xml-dev@l...
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"XML is only semi-structured with no explicit type information." is a 
feature, not a bug. Removing it makes the data less useful, and the 
format fairly uninteresting. XML would not be where it is today if it 
featured strong data typing.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim

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