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Re: A query in xml schema..



<snip/> stuff I agree with from MB about the disadvantages of
micro-parsing.

Here's another one:

What can you do with <amount currency="UKL">34.00</amount> that you
can't do with <amount>34.00UKL</amount>?

Answer: Sort a bunch of them reliably _as numbers_ with XSLT.  The
significance of this goes quite deep, it seems to me.

ht
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