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  • From: Stefan Haustein <haustein@kimo.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
  • To: "Wang,David" <dwang@mitre.org>, XML-Dev Mailing list <xml-dev@xml.org>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:08:27 +0100

"Wang,David" wrote:
> 
> Very simple.  Terseness is not a design goal. :-)
(...)
> OOP classes binds "elements and types" together as one (implicitly), whereas
> in XML Schema they are actually separated, so all elements have to have a
> type or datatype.  Thus, you'd have to build up a type-hierarchy alongside
> an element one, depending on how you want to use it.

Yes -- but the question is: What is the motivation behind this?
No one showed a concrete example justifying making
everything that complicated so far.  

Furthermore, elements can (in fact) have a type AND a datatype 
in order to allow datatyped elements with attributes...

Best regards

Stefan
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