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Re: XML Schema Datatype: unanswered questions.
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 11:46:35 -0400
At 8:31 AM -0700 4/4/01, Tim Bray wrote:
>Speaking as the designated minimalist around here, it does
>seem like a typing scheme sans dates is awfully crippled.
> -Tim
Yes, but I'm certainly not arguing that there should never be a date
type. However, if it can't be done right at the current time, I'd
rather not lock in the mistakes. As a stopgap measure, it's not that
hard to use regular expressions to derive custom date types.
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