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Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:
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> At 9:28 AM -0700 5/7/02, Jonathan Robie wrote:
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> >>Because an XML document is defined as a finite sequences of characters.
> >
> >Actually, XML Schema defines value spaces for the various types, and
> >many people are doing XML views of persistent data.
>
> But the schema is most definitely *not* a fundamental part of the XML
> document. What the schema says is in the document does not change
> What is in the document are strings, not
> numbers, not dates, but strings.
Actually, the document contains characters, not strings. Strings are
an abstraction you layer on the document, just like integers, dates, and
floats.
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