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  • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:16:46 -0500

On 11/15/13 12:11 PM, David Sheets wrote:
Can I be caught by the absence of an element not mapping correctly to
a null value of a optional element? Is there some reason which I'm
missing to encode the null value in a text node as a special value?
XML doesn't know from null.  That's not its problem.

Is there something fundamentally wrong with the design of XML that
prevents this kind of data modeling? Is there a trade-off?
If the absence of null strikes you as "fundamentally wrong", you're in the wrong place.

Also note - null isn't an especially XML conversation:

<https://www.google.com/#q=%22null+considered+harmful%22>

Thanks,
--
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/


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