RE: Personal reply to Edd Dumbill's XML Hack Article wrt W3C XMLSchema

["David E. Cleary" <davec@progress.com>]

> I'd suggest taking a closer look at _how_ those specs have adopted XML
> Schema Datatypes.  RELAX, for example, supports only built-in data types,
> and identifies them _without_ the use of namespace prefixes - "string"
> instead of "xsd:string".

The datatypes are identified in the PSVI by a URI. It doesn't matter what
QName an implementation uses as long as they have the same semantics as a
Schema datatype and the proper URI is generated for the PSVI.

David Cleary
Progress Software