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Re: atoms, molecules
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:27:47 -0400
At 11:09 AM +0100 4/18/01, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>Strong disagreement (speaking personally). We have a way in XML to
>express compound objects -- it's called elements-and-attributes. The
>mistake, in my opinion, was giving in to the SQL people and having
>_any_ kind of date or time as simple types -- they should _all_ have
>gone in to the type library as complex types.
>
Interesting and it brings up a question: are there any complex types
in the type library? I don't recall any, but I've hardly digested the
whole spec yet.
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