Re: [xml-dev] Stupid Question (was RE: [xml-dev] XML doesn't deserve its "X".)

[Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>]

Joe English wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Of course this may just be a lack of imagination on my part;
> there may be many compelling use cases for xsi:type, I just
> can't think of any.  In most applications I've written,
> by the time a function has its hands on a piece of data,
> it already knows what the relevant type is.

Think of it merely as a convenience feature that saves you the
application writer from writing little conversion functions.

 Paul Prescod